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Table 1 The Millennium Project [4]

From: Developing countries and neglected diseases: challenges and perspectives

Millennium Development Goals

UN Millennium Project task forces

1. Reduce extreme poverty and hunger by half relative to 1990

1. Poverty and economic development

2. Achieve universal primary education

2. Hunger

3. Promote gender equality & empowerment of women

3. Education and gender equality

4. Reduce child mortality by two-third relative to 1990

4. Child and maternal health

5. Improve maternal health, including reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters relative to 1990

5. HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and access to essential medicines

6. Prevent spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

6. Environmental sustainability

7. Ensure environment sustainability

7. Water and sanitation

8. Develop a global partnership for development

8. Improving the lives of slum dwellers 9. Trade 10. Science, technology, and innovation