In our world today:
- Two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are female.
- The employment rate for women is two-thirds that for men.
- Women only held 15% of seats in national parliaments in 2003.
- Women represent half of the 40 million people infected with HIV worldwide, and due to their vulnerability in many societies in Africa, this number is growing.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
In our world today:
- About 8,000 people died every single day as a result of AIDS in 2003
- An estimated 4.8 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2003-that's more than 13,000 every day
- Approximately 15 million children around the world have lost one or both parents to AIDS
- An estimated 860,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa lost teachers to AIDS in 1999 alone
- Approximately 40% of the world's population-mostly those living in the world's poorest countries-is at risk of contracting malaria
- Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least one million deaths annually
- An estimated two million deaths resulted from tuberculosis in 2002
- Someone in the world is newly infected with tuberculosis bacilli every second
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
- Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
