Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a historic set of eight global goals that world leaders committed to achieving by the year 2015. The MDGs seek to promote global development and eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and promote global partnership for development. The MDGs are a universal call to action towards what the United Nations believes is essential for progress in developing countries.