What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and which ones apply most to women and HIV/AIDS?
In the year 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a declaration outlining eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. • MDG 3 aims to promote gender equality and empower women • MDG 4 aims to reduce child mortality • MDG 5 aims to improve maternal health by reducing the maternal mortality ratio by 75% • MDG 6 focuses on combating HIV and /AIDS, malaria and other major diseases, has a target of halting, and also reversing, the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases Of course all the MDGs affect women in relation to HIV and AIDS to some extent or other. You can read more about the MDGs at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/gti.
In the year 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a declaration outlining eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. • MDG 3 aims to promote gender equality and empower women • MDG 4 aims to reduce child mortality • MDG 5 aims to improve maternal health by reducing the maternal mortality ratio by 75% • MDG 6 focuses on combating HIV and /AIDS, malaria and other major diseases, has a target of halting, and also reversing, the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases Of course all the MDGs affect women in relation to HIV and AIDS to some extent or other. You can read more about the MDGs here.
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