# **Table 1: MDG health goals, targets, and indicators**

|**MDG goal**|**Targets**|**Official indicators**|**Additional core intermediate monitoring indicators**<sup>**§**</sup>|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Goal 1:**<br>**Eradicate**<br>**extreme poverty**<br>**and hunger**|Halve, between 1990 and<br>2015, the proportion of<br>people who suffer from<br>hunger.|Prevalence of underweight<br>children under five years of age<br>Proportion of population below<br>minimum level of dietary<br>energy consumption|Percentage of children 6 to 59 months who received one dose of vitamin A in the past six<br>months, proportion of infants under six months who are exclusively breastfed.|
|**Goal 4: Reduce**<br>**child mortality**|Reduce by two thirds,<br>between 1990 and 2015,<br>the under-five mortality<br>rate|Under-five mortality rate<br>Infant mortality rate<br>Measles immunization among<br>children under one|Proportion of infants under six months who are exclusively breastfed, proportion of<br>surviving infants who have received a dose of measles vaccine by their first birthday,<br>proportion of children with fast or difficult breathing in the past two weeks who received<br>an appropriate antibiotic, proportion of children with diarrhea in the past two weeks who<br>received oral rehydration therapy (ORT), proportion of children under five who slept<br>under an insecticide-treated net the previous night (in malarious areas), proportion of<br>children with fever in the past two weeks who received an appropriate anti-malarial (in<br>malarious areas)|
|**Goal 5: Improve**<br>**maternal health**|Reduce by three<br>quarters, between 1990<br>and 2015, the maternal<br>mortalityratio|Maternal mortality ratio<br>Proportion of births attended<br>by skilled health personnel|Contraceptive prevalence rate, percentage of women with any antenatal care, provision of<br>emergency obstetric care, syphilis in pregnant women, and proportion that are properly<br>treated, percentage of women receiving antenatal care who receive at least two to three<br>intermittent preventivemalaria treatments during pregnancy (in malarious areas)|
|**Goal 6: Combat**<br>**HIV/AIDS,**<br>**malaria and**<br>**other diseases**|Have halted by 2015 and<br>begun to reverse the<br>spread of HIV/AIDS|HIV prevalence among 15-24-<br>year old pregnant women<br>Condom use rate of the<br>contraceptive prevalence rate<br>Number of children orphaned<br>byHIV/AIDS|Percentage of persons using a condom at last higher-risk sex, percentage of sexually<br>transmitted infection clients who are appropriately diagnosed and treated according to<br>guidelines, percentage of HIV-positive women receiving anti-retroviral treatment during<br>pregnancy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV|
||Have halted by 2015 and<br>begun to reverse the<br>incidence of malaria and<br>other major diseases|Prevalence of and death rate<br>associated with malaria<br>Proportion of population in<br>malaria risk areas using<br>effective malaria prevention<br>and treatment measures|Percentage of patients with uncomplicated malaria who received treatment within 24<br>hours of onset of symptoms, percentage of children under five sleeping under insecticide-<br>treated nets, percentage of pregnant women sleeping under insecticide-treated nets,<br>percentage of pregnant women who have taken chemoprophylaxis or drug treatment for<br>malaria|
|||Prevalence of and death rates<br>associated with tuberculosis<br>Proportion of tuberculosis<br>cases detected and cured under<br>directly observed treatment,<br>short-course (DOTS)|Percentage of estimated new smear-positive tuberculosis cases that were registered under<br>the DOTS approach|

Source: Wagstaff and Claeson (2004).<sup>§</sup> Additional core intermediate monitoring indicators are those recommended by a technical consultation between the World Bank and UN technical agencies, and are as reported in Table 2.1 of Wagstaff and Claeson (2004). That table also lists optional indicators.

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