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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
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By 2015, the goal is to reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and to reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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Achieve universal primary education |
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Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling |
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Promote gender equality and empower women |
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Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 |
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Reduce child mortality
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Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
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Improve maternal health |
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Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
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Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
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Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
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Ensure environmental sustainability |
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Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources. Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water; Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020. |
