UN Millennium Development Goal target to reduce malaria burden achieved

With roughly six weeks left under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – a set of eight universally-agreed goals adopted in 2000 to rid the world of extreme poverty and disease by 2015 – global leaders, diplomats and health experts are gathering at the UN today in New York to celebrate the progress made against one of the world’s leading killers: malaria.
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news