Millennium Development

Goals

Target 6

1º What are the Millennium Development Goals?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2005 that respond to the world's main development challenges.The MDGs are drawn from te actions and targets contained in te Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

2º How many targets are there?

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme proverty and hunger.

Goal 2: Achieve universal prymary education.

Goal 3:Promote gender equality and empower women.

Goal 4: Reduce cild mortality.

Goal 5: Improve maternal health.

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS,malaria and other diseases.

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability.

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partinership for Development.

3º What is AIDS?

Acquired inmune deficiency syndrome or acquired inmuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human inmune system caused by the human inmunodeficiency virus

(HIV).

The transmission can involve anal,vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding or other exposure to one of above bodily fluids.

4º What is Malaria?

Malaria is a mosquito – borne infectious diserse caused by a euskaryotic protist of the genus Plasmodium.It's widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia and Africa.

Malaria is naturally transmitted by the bite of a females Anopheles mosquito.When a mosquito bites taken, which contains malaria parasites. These develop within the mosquito, and about one week later, when are injected with te mosquito's saliva into the person being bitten.After a period of between two weeks and several months spent in the liver, the malaria parasites start to multiply within red blood cells, causing symptoms that include fever and headache.In severe cases, the disease worsens, leading to coma and death.

5º Other diseases are...

African Sleeping Sickness Lyme disease

Amebiasis Meningococcal meningitis

Chaga's Diserse Parasitic Diseases

Cholera Plague

Dengue Fever Poliomyelitis (polio)

Dysentery Rabies

Filariasis River Blindness

Giardiasis Schistosomiasis

Hepatitis A Tetanus

Hepatitis B Tickborne Encephalitis

Hepatitis C Traveler's Diarrhea

Hepatitis E Typhoid Fever

Japanese Encephalitis Typhus Fever

Lassa Fever Worms

Leishmaniasis Yellow Fever

6º Our Solutions

a) Prevent AIDS when we having sexual actions.

b) Vaccinate all people of the third world.

c) Look for more medicines and seld them cheaper.