Updates on Poverty Education Disease and More

¶ … Goals There are eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that the 193 members of the United Nations agreed upon many years ago. How do these goals apply to the United States, and how have the MDGs impacted the global disease issues? Poverty in the United States and Worldwide The MDGs report from the United Nations (2015) asserts that "extreme poverty has declined significantly" in the past 20 years; about half of the world's developing population lived on less than $1.25 a day in 1990 but by 2015 only 14% are living on $1.25.

The actual numbers globally show that 1.9 billion people were living in extreme poverty in 1990 but in 2015 that number has shrunk to 836 million (UN Overview). In the U.S. in 2014 there were an estimated 46.7 people living in poverty and 15.5 (21.1%) children less than 18 years of age were in poverty (not "extreme poverty" but under the poverty line). Primary Education in the U.S.

and Worldwide Across the planet there has been great improvement in the number of children attending school; in 2000 83% of primary aged children were enrolled in school, but by 2015 that improved to 91% (UN Overview). In the U.S., according to the U.S. Census, in 1955 there were about 25 million elementary age students in school; by 2011, that number has grown to 33 million (Davis, 2011). Equal Opportunity for Girls and Women.

The UN Millennium Development Goals report shows that in Southern Asia, the number of girls enrolled in primary school in 1990 was 74 for every 100 boys; today, 103 girls are enrolled for every 100 boys (UN Overview). Women have also gained ground in the world in political representation and in respectable jobs; from 1991 to 2015, the proportion of women in "vulnerable employment" dropped by 13%. In the U.S. women's earnings " .. account for upwards of 40% of married parents' income," up from just a third 40 years ago (Forbes).

Reducing Child Mortality Worldwide the under-five years of age mortality rate has dropped " .. by more than half" (from 90 to 43 deaths per 1000 births) from 1990 to 2015. In the U.S., the child mortality rate has dropped from around 440 per 100,000 population in 1940 to 25 deaths per 100,000 population in 2007 (USHHS). Combating AIDS / HIV -- And Addressing the Burden of Disease New infections of HIV dropped from 3.5 million cases in 2000 to 2.1 million in 2013 (UN Overview). Worldwide about 13.6 million people are living with HIV.

In the United States roughly 1.2 million were living with HIV going into 2013; of those 1.2 million, close to 13% did not know they were actually infected (CDC). About 50,000 Americans are infected with HIV annually, up from 47,500 new HIV infections in 2010 (CDC). Meanwhile, in the world there were 6.2 million malaria-related deaths that were "averted between 2000 and 2015," thanks to interventions led by the World Health Organization and.