Today we started by doing blog discussion on our blog post #7, then we presented more on our U.N. Millennium goals project.
Maternal health combat HIV/AIDS- Target for HIV/Aids halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment care for HIV/AIDS Halt and begin reverse by 2015, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. Facts every day over 7,500 people are infected by HIV/AIDS. over 5,500 of those people die from aids.There was a rough estimate of 33.4 million people living with HIV, two thirds of them in Saharan Africa. Every 9 minutes someone in the US is infected with aids. Since 1981, 1.7 million people have been diagnosed with aids or HIV just in the US alone.
Maternal health wanting to stop maternal death when giving birth. Maternal death is when a women dies within 42 days of termination of the pregnancy. More than 35,000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. the maternal mortality rate is declining slowly. in sub Saharan Africa a woman's maternal mortality is 1-30 compared to 1 in 5,600 in developed regions. Every year over 1 million children are left motherless. Main targets are reduce by three quarters from 1990-2015. Achieve universal access to reproductive health.
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