What is the goal?
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are eight goals that all 191 members states have agreed to try to achieve by 2015. The United Nation Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to achieve universal primary education, extreme proverty and hunger, universal primary education, promote gender equality and to empower women, to combat HIV/AIDS and malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability and to develop a global partnership for development. Each goal comprise of a target that have associated indicators for monitoring progress.
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the outcome that are used to measure progress towards hinderance meeting the Millennium health goals. This paper would provide details of the development of the nations and look at the goals set to overcome these problems in 2015. It would also state how healthcare workers are working towards the Millennium Goals. At the end of 2011, 34.2 million people were living with HIV, that year 2.5 million people became newly infected and 1.7 million people died of AIDS. The Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia has the greatest concentration of the disease (CDC) in the world. The indicator: halt and reverse spread of HIV/AIDS as a United Nation initiative by 2015. HIV prevalence among age 15-24 years, Condom uses at last high –risk sex; Proportion aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/Aids. Achieve by 2015 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it. Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs. Why is this important in terms of the health of a nation? Ranked the goal
It is important to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS as a