We did our blog discussions on failed states. Then we did the millenium goals project. Maternal health and Combat HIV/AIDS were todays topics. The map test is Thursday.
•Each group will have two UN goals- Maternal health and Combat HIV/AIDS
•Focus on the following items:
-define/explain the goal and all it’s targets: 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. Every day over 7500 people are infected by hiv/aids. Over 5500 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 min 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.
-explain why it is a goal—explain the problems the world is having with your issue: Combat HIV/AIDS- Maternal health- Improve maternal health. More than 35000 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 5600 in developed regions. Every year over 1 million children are left motherless. Reduce by three quarters from 1990- 2015. Achieve universal access to reproductive health.
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