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Millennium development goals: the final countdown

The millennium development goals expire in 2015, to be replaced by the sustainable development goals. What have the MDGs achieved? How have they worked in practice? And what remains to be done?

23 September 2015

  • TOPSHOTS Haitians wait in line near St. Luke's Family hospital for a consultation in Tabarre, on September 17, 2015, from American doctors from USNS Comfort, a US Navy seagoing Medical Treatment Facility. Since April, the U.S. Southern Command hospital ship has taken a team of U.S. military medical and construction personnel, private-aid organizations and partner-nation officials to 11 Latin American and Caribbean nations, treating more than 100,000 patients and performing community-assistance projects.

    Sustainable development goals promise little respite for indebted poor countries

    Tim Jones
    New commitment on debt offers scant relief to developing countries, with rich nations likely to block any attempts to reform the global financial system

13 August 2015

  • Bay of Anse a la Mouche in the Seychelles

    Small island nations - how much do you know?

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  • Marshall Islands canoe program “finishing touches”: Out-of-school youth trainees touch up the voyaging canoe of the Waan Aelon in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands) program prior to a voyage to a distant atoll.

    Marshall Islands floats youth alternative to Pacific's high dependency on aid

    A programme aims to build self-reliance and sustainable future for urban youth by teaching them the life skills and culture of their ancestors

    • Should aid still flow to middle-income nations or are the poorest the priority?

      Sara Harcourt and Judith Tyson

    • Millennium development goal 8: 15 achievements on global partnerships

    • What is the millennium development goal on global partnerships all about?

23 July 2015

  • A man pushes his bike holding jerry cans with water taken from Lake Kivu on April 24, 2014 in Goma.

    We must quench the thirst of the 663 million people without safe water

    Fleur Anderson
    The new water and sanitation development goal must include measurable targets, to improve the lives of those without water or access to a safe toilet
  • Boys walk the Mathare valley slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 11, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

    Nairobi infrastructure improvements hold water despite Twitter scepticism

    Access to water through dispensing machines is improving lives in the Kenyan capital, despite problems caused by urban migration and corruption allegations

    • Millennium development goal 7: 15 achievements on environmental sustainability

    • What is the millennium development goal on sustainability all about?

    • Ethiopia powers up ambitions for green, climate-resilient industry

7 July 2015

  • Children from the village of Hanuabada play cricket in the streets, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

    Pacific nations struggling with deforestation and malnourishment – UN report

    The UN’s final millennium development report shows progress has been slow in Oceania, prompting calls for increased foreign aid funding

18 June 2015

  • A child is given an injection as part of a malaria vaccine trial

    Kenya's net gains on malaria prevention threatened by climate change

  • Malaria is causing 35% of the infantile deaths in Madagascar

    Millennium development goal 6: 15 achievements on HIV and malaria

  • Students in Calcutta walk past the Red Ribbon Express, a train used for an HIV/Aids awareness campaign in India.

    What is the millennium development goal on HIV and malaria all about?

  • Treatment at the Modjo health clinic in central Ethiopia has benefited seven-month-old Aster who is HIV free.

    Mothers of wisdom: Ethiopian women ensure their babies are born HIV free

28 May 2015

  • Kyrgyzstan mother and baby

    Kyrgyzstan strives to make inroads on poor maternal health record

  • Children in Angolo

    Inequality has transformed surviving childhood into a global postcode lottery

    Flavia Bustreo
  • Inside a hospital room in Khovd aimag, Mongolia, where a child has just been delivered

    Your stories on childbirth and maternal healthcare around the world

  • A mother and her newborn baby in the maternity ward of Temeke General Hospital, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

    Millennium development goals 4 and 5: 15 achievements on reducing child mortality and better maternal health

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