I was gone from class today, so these are some notes from another student who was present.
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
- Men and women should receive equal treatment, unless reason for different treatment
- Started in 70's
- Problem is women don't have equal rights, not able to do the same things that guys do
- Equality in primary education; achieved
- Secondary and college; working
- 40 out of 100 jobs in the non-agricultural sector held by women
- Many countries have men dominating women
- Asia, Middle Eastern countries, some parts of Africa
Under 5 Mortality Rate
- Africa 1/10 children die by the age of 5, 15x more than developed region
- 1990 death toll down about 50%
- Organization in Uruguay gives families food/medicine, doctor check-ups have increased
- Pregnant women are kept on a healthy schedule to protect baby
- 17,000 fewer children dying each day
- 6.6 million children died last year
- Proportion of children dying up to one month old is increasing - Birth to one month of age
- Mothers with no education are more likely to die
Improve Maternal Health
- Reduce by 3 quarters maternal mortality ratio
- Declined 47% since the 90's
- In Asia and Africa, declined by 2/3
- Achieve universal access to reproductive help
- Family planning is becoming more and more popular
- Improving maternal health increases the amount of working women
- Only half of the women in undeveloped countries are receiving necessary health care
- Fewer teens are having children
- Contraception use has increased
Combat HIV AIDs and other diseases
- To halt and try to reverse and stop the spread of HIV AIDS
- Affects immune system
- More people than ever living with HIV
- 2.5 million new infections each year
- Declining overall
- Major issue in Africa
- Receive universal treatment for everyone who needs it
- in 2011 8 million people receiving it, still 7 million who need it
- Halt and reverse the spread of malaria
- Decreased by 17% since 2000
- 1.1 million deaths prevented in 2000
- tuberculosis
- millions of people saved in the last decade
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