Sustainability: Millenium Development Goals for Southern Asia
I am going to start this blog making a little summary of the main eight goals related with the Millenium Development. It has been ten years since world leaders set this goals in order to free humanity from extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease. The Millenium Declaration and the Millenium Development Goals framework that I am going to explain were sat up in this summit.
Instead of make a summarize of every goal and target I am going to present the facts that I think more relevants. Southern Asia has the biggest concentration of poor people int he world. This area harbors 1,500 million people and the 39% lives with less than $1,25 a day. In spite of the conflicts and instability the area grew in average. The infant mortality rate in Souther Asia has fallen down too. Instead of 130 per 1,000 births in 1990 to 59 per 1,000 births in 2007. Specifically in Bangladesh this change has been huge the infant mortality has fallen down from 144 to 69 per 1,000 births during the same period.
There have increased the enrollment in primary and secondary school however 31,5 million school-age children in basic education are not going to school in the region. In this area the challenges in terms of children malnutrition, maternal deaths in child birth and equal opportunities for women in education and health are so much greater. However there still not have disappeared the challenges to improve the child malnutrition, rates of completion of primary and secondary school, maternal mortality and gender balance in education and health.
Nearly half of all children under five years old are malnourished. The illiteracy rate among young people is quite high withe the following figures; 23% for males and 38% for women. Tuberculosis has resurged as a threat like HIV/AIDS. Last but not least with a maternal mortality raion of 567 per 100,000 live births maternal deaths during childbirth continuos to be a common tragic in Southern Asia.
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18 Jan 2012
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Antonio Calixto Moreno Zarco
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