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'Striking Improvements' Toward MDG Targets, Progress Is Unequal, WHO Report Says
The WHO's annual health statistics report, released Monday, found that global efforts aimed at achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets have led to "striking improvements" among goals related to child health, maternal mortality, malaria and HIV/AIDS, Reuters reports. But the "results mask inequalities between countries, and some nations' progress had been slowed by conflict, poor governance or humanitarian and economic crises," the news service writes (Kelland, 5/10).
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