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UN Millenium Development Goals

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

"We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual.

We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve the Goals."

United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi A. Annan

UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) -

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

World Bank Group Millenium Development Goals

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/GMIS/home.do?siteId=2

Cost of Attaining the Millennium Development Goals

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/mdgassessment.pdf

Health Related Goals

GOAL: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
GOAL: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
GOAL: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
GOAL: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

US Agency for International Development (USAID) - provides economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 100 countries to provide a better future for all.

http://www.usaid.gov/

World Health Organization (WHO)

http://www.who.int/en/

UNICEF - was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path.

http://www.unicef.org/

Department For International Development(DFID): Child Mortality

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/childmortality.asp

DFID Child Mortality Factsheet

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/mdg-factsheets/childmortalityfactsheet.pdf

Department For International Development: Maternal Health

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/health.asp

DFID Maternal Health Fact sheet

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/health.asp

Department For International Development: HIV, AIDS, Malaria & Other Diseases

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/hivaids.asp

DFID AIDS/HIV Fact sheet