December 13th

Friday the 13th

Blog Discussion

  • Combat HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases
    • Reversed by 2015
    • On the decline
    • No cure as of right now
    • Find a treatment by 2010
    • Still none found in 2011
    • More people being treated
  • Ensure Environmental Sustainability
    • Reverse loss of environmental resources
      • Forests are poor peoples' fallback
      • Basically stop deforestation
      • Africa/South America
    • Sanitation
      • Halved proportion of people without clean water 5 years ahead of schedule
      • Proportion of people using clean water went up 80% since the 90s
      • 40% of the people without clean water are in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Keeping people from slums
      • Dropped 6% in 12 years
      • UN hopes to accomplish by 2020
      • 200 million of these people gained access to improved water sources, sanitation facilities or durable/less crowded housing
  • Global Partnerships
    • Protect the trade
      • Get countries what they need but still make money on what they export
    • Address the needs of developing countries
      • Seems pretty straight forward
    • Landlocked countries
      • Difficult to export goods
    • Debt of developing countries
    • Provide drugs and medicine
    • Access to benefits of technology
      • Internet access
        • Business opportunities
        • Education
      • Cellular reception
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