For example, they call for reducing by 2015 the proportion of the world’s population that was chronically under-nourished in 1990, and for cutting the child mortality rate by three quarters. The MDG’s also address the scourges of maternal death in childbirth, lack of access to safe drinking water, and killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS.
同样这些教训适用于《千年发展目标》，这是与贫穷、疾病和饥饿作斗争的目标，世界各组织于2000年通过。《千年发展目标》设想大胆，成效显著。例如，它们呼吁，到2015年，减少1990年世界人口长期营养不良的比例，削减儿童死亡率三分之二。《千年发展目标》还述及产妇分娩死亡、缺乏安全饮用水和疟疾、肺结核和艾滋病等致命疾病问题。