What are the 8 Millennium Development Goals?

_{1.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger}

• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

_{2. Achieve universal primary education}

• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

_{3. Promote gender equality and empower women}

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

_{4. Reduce child mortality}

• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

_{5. Improve maternal health}

• Reduce by ¾ the maternal mortality ratio

_{6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases}

• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

_{7. Ensure environmental sustainability}

• 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

_{8. Develop a global partnership for development}

• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
• Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
• Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
• In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies