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Do You Think Nigeria Can Achieve The United Nations Millenium Development Goals? by uonyekwere(m): 8:15pm On Jul 24, 2011
These are a list of the United Nations Millenium Development Goals, most of which have a deadline of 2015. Do you think these are feasibly attainable in Nigeria by 2015? Why or why not? What can we do to achieve these goals?

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Achieve universal access to reproductive health
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Address the special needs of least developed countries
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

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