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The United Nations Health and Wellbeing goal
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Health and Wellbeing is the third of the 17 sustainable development goals and aims to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all people at all ages.
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The overall goal is to eliminate a wide range of diseases and address various continuous and emerging health issues.
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Specific focuses include Children's health, maternal mortality and the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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Luckily, major strides have already been made, such as increasing life expectancy, access to clean water and sanitation,
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as well as reducing child and maternal mortality and diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, polio, HIV and AIDS.
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But there's still much to accomplish.
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Let's put things in perspective to better understand the global impact.
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Since 1990 17,000 fewer children die each day, but more than six million still don't get to celebrate their fifth birthday.
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Additionally, maternal mortality has fallen by almost 50% since 1990
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but the maternal mortality ratio in developing regions is still 14 times higher than in developed regions.
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Although the incidents of infectious diseases have decreased overall since 2000, many are still impacted by HIV and AIDS.
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HIV is the leading cause of death for women of reproductive age worldwide.
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In 2013, 35 million people were living with HIV.
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So now that we understand what's going on, what are some of the target goals for this campaign, you ask?
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Some target goals include reducing the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
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Ending preventable infant and child deaths under five years old.
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Reducing the neonatal and child mortality rate in all countries.
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Ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases.
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Combating hepatitis and other water borne diseases.
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Preventing and treating mental health diseases.
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Ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services.
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Achieving universal health coverage and increasing health financing.
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And supporting the research and development of vaccines and medicines.
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To learn more about the health and wellbeing goals and what you can do to help, visit un.org/sustainabledevelopment/health.