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  • The Millennium Development Goals

    March 24 2009

    In 2000, leaders from 189 nations signed on to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight ambitious targets designed to significantly reduce global poverty and disease by 2015. MORE

  • HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    March 21 2009

    Every day, nearly 11,500 people die from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, nearly two-thirds of whom are living in sub-Saharan Africa. MORE

  • HIV/AIDS

    March 21 2009

    Every day, 5,500 people die from HIV/AIDS and another 7,400 people are infected with the AIDS virus. MORE

  • Water and Sanitation

    March 12 2009

    Across the world, 884 million people do not have access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation. MORE

  • Trade and Investment

    March 12 2009

    Trade that creates economic growth and opportunities for the poorest poeple is key to ending poverty in the long-term. MORE

  • Tuberculosis

    March 12 2009

    1.7 million people die from tuberculosis every year (including 456,000 people who are also HIV-postive). MORE

  • Maternal and Child Health

    March 12 2009

    Across the world, young children and pregnant women are bearing the brunt of weak health systems. MORE

  • Malaria

    March 12 2009

    Every 40 seconds a child in sub-Saharan Africa dies from a mosquito bite. MORE

  • Governance and Security

    March 11 2009

    Good governance and security are essential to the fight against extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. MORE

  • Education

    March 11 2009

    75 million children are out of school around the world, a figure equivalent to the entire primary-school aged population in Europe and North America. MORE