Millennium Development Goal 6
In the year 2000 leaders of 189 nations got together and agreed on a vision to see the future of the world with less poverty, the eradication of hunger and disease, a greater and higher survival rate of mothers and their infants, a world with better educated children, equal opportunities for women and finally a world where we have a healthier environment. In this essay I am going to discuss the millennium development goal 6 which is the eradication of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. This is a huge problem throughout Africa and especially closer to home in South Africa. I will be discussing the overview of the initial goal and discuss how the goal has progressed from origin to present time. I will also be looking at how South Africa has been dealing with the eradication of this goal. And finally my recommendations on how these goals could be achieved faster and better.
The targets for the millenium development goal is to halt and beggin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, the second target was to achive universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS to all those who are in need of it by 2010 a. Thirdly halt and begin to reverse, by 2015 the incidence of malaleria and other major diseases. In 2000 when the goals where made one can see that is was a huge task and one that was going to need a huge amount of attention. Here are some facts that will give you a better understanding of the momentious task that 189 countries were facing. Everyday 7400 people are infected with HIV and 5500 die from AIDS-related illness. HIV remaint the leading casue of death amoung repoductive aged women world wide. An estimate of 33.4 million people living with HIV in 2008 two thirds being in sub-Saharan Africa. Access of HIV treatment in low and middle income countries increase ten fold over the span of five years. Malaria kills a child in the world every 45 seconds, close to 90 percent of malaria deaths occur in Africa, where it accounts for fifth of childhood mortality. 1.8 million
The targets for the millenium development goal is to halt and beggin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, the second target was to achive universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS to all those who are in need of it by 2010 a. Thirdly halt and begin to reverse, by 2015 the incidence of malaleria and other major diseases. In 2000 when the goals where made one can see that is was a huge task and one that was going to need a huge amount of attention. Here are some facts that will give you a better understanding of the momentious task that 189 countries were facing. Everyday 7400 people are infected with HIV and 5500 die from AIDS-related illness. HIV remaint the leading casue of death amoung repoductive aged women world wide. An estimate of 33.4 million people living with HIV in 2008 two thirds being in sub-Saharan Africa. Access of HIV treatment in low and middle income countries increase ten fold over the span of five years. Malaria kills a child in the world every 45 seconds, close to 90 percent of malaria deaths occur in Africa, where it accounts for fifth of childhood mortality. 1.8 million