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Introduction to STEPS

Millennium Development Goals

As a result of the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the UN General the President of the General Assembly proposes that it is necessary
Assembly adopted a framework focused on poverty alleviation called to:
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2001. The MDGs
consist of eight goals, each accompanied by a series of targets “…achieve universal access to reproductive
toward which governments have committed to work by 2015 and health by 2015, as set out at the International
2020. Conference on Population and Development,
integrating this goal in strategies to attain the
The Millennium Development Goals international development goals, including
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger those contained in the Millennium Declaration
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education aimed at improving maternal health, reducing
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women child mortality, promoting gender equality,
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality combating HIV/AIDS and eradicating
Goal 5: Improve maternal health poverty.”
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Thus the Cairo Consensus is just as valid as when it was first
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development proposed. In fact, a wider set of development actors – in education,
child survival, poverty eradication and environment – will become
While universal access to sexual and reproductive health services increasingly involved in linking their work to SRHR programs
and care is not included as one of the MDGs, most people accept that throughout the world as they work to achieve the MDGs. To learn
it is an essential strategy for each and every one of the eight content more about the MDGs and SRHR review Millennium Development
goals. The revised draft outcome document of the high-level plenary Goals & Sexual and Reproductive Health Briefing Cards (Family
meeting of the General Assembly of September 2005 submitted by Care International).

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