WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE MADE STRIDES IN WEAKENING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH?

Progress toward ending poverty

“Countries working together over the past decade have made considerable strides toward eliminating extreme proverty in the world.

In 2000, world leaders came together to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, a blueprint for halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of diseases, promoting access to education and

improving health care, all by 2015. The eight goals put forth in the declaration have become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Although serious challenges remain, the world has already made remarkable progress toward achieving the eight MDGs.”

– Dr. Gail C. Christopher Vice President — Program Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

1. “When we pull together, we can achieve great things.”

2. Living proof: A showcase of incredible progress

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“When we pull together, we can achieve great things.”

At a news conference earlier this year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised progress made toward the MDGs. Ban cited preliminary estimates indicating that the MDG of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty was achieved in 2010. Deaths from tuberculosis have declined by 40 percent since 1990, and malaria deaths have declined by nearly a third in the past decade. “When we pull together,” said Ban at the news conference, “we can achieve great things.” (via UN News Centre).

WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE MADE STRIDES IN WEAKENING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH?

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Living proof: A showcase of incredible progress

We’re not only making significant progress toward weakening the connection between poverty and ill health, we’re sharing stories of how we’re doing it. The UN has compiled brief, country-by-country examples of progress toward each of the eight Millennium Development Goals. For a more in-depth set of progress stories, visit Living Proof, a “showcase of stories” from the ONE Campaign.

WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE MADE STRIDES IN WEAKENING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH?

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