FACTBOX - Progress in the UN Millennium Development Goals


REUTERS - The United Nations is set to launch a $40 billion global strategy on Wednesday to help pregnant mothers and their infants, as it tries to boost efforts to meet its Millennium Development Goals. The anti-poverty goals are meant to be achieved by 2015.

Here is a description of the goals and progress made so far.

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