World leaders convene to develop the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to set targets for reducing poverty and disease, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. They also set a target to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and to reduce the child mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
World Population : 170,060,000
Key: 1,000,000 People 1,000,000 People (Annotated) Milestone
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World leaders convene to develop the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to set targets for reducing poverty and disease, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. They also set a target to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and to reduce the child mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
World leaders convene to develop the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to set targets for reducing poverty and disease, including malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. They also set a target to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and to reduce the child mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.