UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals

Place: New York, United States
Date: 20-22 September 2010

“With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a summit to accelerate progress towards the MDGs.

“The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000, commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. They established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with targets set for 2015, and identified a number of indicators to monitor progress, several of which relate directly to health.

“Health is key to the achievement of all the MDGs. WHO’s work helps countries improve maternal, child and newborn health; to combat AIDS, TB and malaria; and to improve people’s access to safe food, clean water, sanitation and essential medicines.”

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/meetings/2010/mdg_summit/en/index.html