Training Report: Millennium Development Goals in the SAARC Region

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Goal # 4
Reduce Child
Mortality
Reduce by twothirds
the underfive
mortality rate.
Estimated number of
under-five deaths, by region
(2006)
Did you know
that?
Every day, on
average more
than 26,000
children under
the age of five
die around the
world, mostly
from
preventable
causes.
Are NATIONS
Are NATIONS keeping their promise?
Many developing countries face challenges
ahead in improving ways and means for
wishes of children.
Goal # 5
Maternal
deaths
estimated at
536,000
Latin America/
Caribbean
15,000
South-Eastern/
Western Asia
43,300
Developed
Regions/CIS
countries
2,760
Northern Africa
5,700
Did you know that?
Women in high-fertility
countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa have a 1-in-16 lifetime
risk of
dying from maternal causes.
Improve
maternal health
Reduce by
three quarters
the maternal
mortality ratio.
Sub-Saharan
Africa
270,000
South Asia
188,000
Eastern Asia
9,200
Deadline 2015
Women in low-fertility
countries in Europe have a 1-
in-2,000 risk of
dying from maternal causes.
Women in North America
have a 1-in-3,500 risk of
dying.
Goal # 6
Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other
diseases
Have halted by 2015 and
begun to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS.
Globally, 4.3 million
people were newly
infected with HIV in
2006.
Deadline 2015
Did you know
that?
Have to be
halted and
begun to
reverse the
incidence of
malaria and
other major
diseases by
2015.
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