goal 6: to combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Our school, along with others, has been chosen to make a book on the sixth millennium development goal. we are researching this goal, finding statistics and facts and creating articles and artwork to go into our book. some of the aims of MDG 6 are the following:
"Target 6.A:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
- New HIV infections continue to decline in most regions.
- The number of new HIV infections per 100 adults (aged 15 to 49) declined by 44 per cent between 2001 and 2012.
- An estimated 2.3 million cases of people of all ages are newly infected and 1.6 million people died from AID-related causes.
- Comprehensive knowledge of HIV transmission remains low among young people, along with condom use.
- About 210,000 children died of AIDS-related causes in 2012, compared to 320,000 in 2005.
Target 6.B:
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
- Antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV were delivered to 9.5 million people in developing regions in 2012.
- Over 900,000 pregnant women living with HIV globally were receiving antiretroviral prophylaxis or treatment by December 2012.
Target 6.C:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
- Between 2000 and 2012, the substantial expansion of malaria interventions led to a 42 per cent decline in malaria mortality rates globally.
- In the decade since 2000, 3.3 million deaths from malaria were averted, and the lives of three million young children were saved.
- Thanks to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Treatment for tuberculosis has saved some 22 million lives between 1995 and 2012. "
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