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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
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Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases


TARGETS
INDICATORS
1. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
  • HIV prevalence among 15-to-24-year-old pregnant women
  • Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate
  • Number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS
2. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
  • Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
  • Proportion of population in malaria risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures
  • Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
  • Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly observed treatment short course (DOTS)


See ADB's Key Indicators 2003 for the most recent status of this goal in ADB's developing member countries.

For information on ADB's work on HIV/AIDS and SARS, visit the HIV/AIDS and SARS websites.
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