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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 8: Develop A Global Partnership For Development Target 8A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Target 8B: Address the special needs of least developed countries Target 8C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States Target 8D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries Target 8E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries Target 8F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially...
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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health Target 5A: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio Target 5B: Achieve universal access to reproductive health Maternal mortality has nearly halved worldwide in the last 20 years. Goal 5 correlates with Goal 4 of reducing child mortality. Improved maternal health is not only important to saving the mother’s life, but also for their baby. Only half of pregnant women in developing countries received the recommended minimum of four antenatal care visitations. While births by doctors, midwives and other skilled health providers has...
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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Target 4.A: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate Since 1990, the mortality rate for children under five years old has nearly halved worldwide, going from 90 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 48 in 2012. Newborns account for 44 percent of those deaths. In 2012, an estimated 6.6 million children - 18,000 a day - died from mostly preventable diseases, such as diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia. Undernutrition contributes to 45 percent of under-five deaths. High mortality...
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This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 3A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Much progress has been made to close the gap between males and females in education; however, gender disparities continue to exclude girls from the most marginalized communities. The same gains and disparities are also reflected in the global labor market. The number of women employed outside of agriculture rose to 40 percent, but rose to only 20...
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