Goals and targets Oceania Latin America and Commonwealth of Independent States Caribbean Europe Asia Reduce extreme poverty by half — moderate poverty low poverty low poverty Reduce hunger by half moderate hunger moderate hunger very low hunger high hunger Universal primary schooling moderate enrolment high enrolment high enrolment high enrolment Equal girls’ enrolment in primary school close to parity parity parity parity Women’s share of paid employment medium share high share high share high share Women’s equal representation in national parliaments very low representation moderate representation low representation low representation GOAL 4 | Reduce child mortality Reduce mortality of under-five-year-olds by two thirds moderate mortality low mortality low mortality moderate mortality Measles immunisation low coverage high coverage high coverage high coverage GOAL 5 | Improve maternal health Reduce maternal mortality by three quarters high mortality moderate mortality low mortality low mortality GOAL 6 | Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Halt and reverse spread of HIV/AIDS moderate prevalence moderate prevalence moderate prevalence low prevalence Halt and reverse spread of malaria low risk moderate risk low risk low risk Halt and reverse spread of tuberculosis moderate mortality low mortality moderate mortality moderate mortality Reverse loss of forests high forest cover high forest cover high forest cover low forest cover Halve proportion without improved drinking water low coverage high coverage high coverage moderate coverage Halve proportion without sanitation low coverage moderate coverage moderate coverage moderate coverage Improve the lives of slum-dwellers moderate proportion of slum-dwellers moderate proportion of slum-dwellers low proportion of slum-dwellers moderate proportion of slum-dwellers Youth unemployment low unemployment high unemployment high unemployment high unemployment Internet users low access high access moderate access moderate access 47 GOAL 1 | GOAL 2 | GOAL 3 | Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women GOAL 7 | GOAL 8 | Ensure environmental sustainability Develop a global partnership for development Special Report No 10/2008 — EC development assistance to the health services in sub-Saharan Africa ANNEX II EXTRACT FROM BRUSSELS DECLARATION BY ACP MINISTERS OF HEALTH, OCTOBER 2007 ‘N. Recognising current challenges of health management in ACP States including, inter alia, the lack of human resources, weaknesses of disease alert and surveillance systems, inadequate health information management systems for decision making, poor quality of healthcare, especially universal precautions, blood transfusion and laboratory capacity, low level of indigenous/operational research and development (R & D) in endemic, and communicable diseases such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, as well as those arising out of violence, trauma and accidents, limited preparedness and management of epidemics such as Ebola among others, exorbitant prices of drugs and pharmaceuticals and the need to adequately finance the health sector from annual budgets; O. Stressing the importance of health systems in ACP States to address the prevention, treatment and management of neglected tropical diseases within the epidemiological context, such as human trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), dengue, leprosy, filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (Snail fever), and trachoma; chronic and lifestyle diseases, such as hypertension, cancer, sickle cell anaemia and diabetes, emerging and re-emerging diseases, such as Buruli ulcer, haemorrhagic fever, Monkeypox, plague, rabies, as well as mental illness, neurological illnesses, human cer-ebral meningitis, intestinal worms, and infantile diarrhoea, among others;’ Special Report No 10/2008 — EC development assistance to the health services in sub-Saharan Africa 48 
BILAGA II UTDRAG UR BRYSSELDEKLARATIONEN FRN AVS-LNDERNAS HLSO-OCH SJUKVRDSMINISTRAR, OKTOBER 2007 N. r medvetna om aktuella utmaningar nr det gller frvaltningen av hlso-och sjukvrdssektorn i AVS-lnderna, bland annat personalbrist, brister i varningssystem och epidemiologisk vervakning, otillrckliga frvaltningssystem fr de hlsouppgifter som krvs fr beslutsfattande, ineffektiv hlsovrd, srskilt nr det gller frsik-tighetstgrder, blodtransfusion och kapacitet vid laboratorier, den lga frekomsten av nationell operativ forskning och utveckling (FoU) om endemiska och verfrbara sjukdomar som hiv och aids, tuberkulos och malaria, och kroniska sjukdomar som diabetes, hgt blodtryck, astma och ven sjukdomar till fljd av vld, trauma och olyckor, begrnsad beredskap vid och hantering av epidemier som ebola, orimliga priser p mediciner och lkemedel och kravet att avstta tillrckliga resurser till hlso-och sjukvrdssektorn i de rliga budgetarna.