http://www.good.is/post/which-countries-are-making-the-most-progress-on-the-millenium-development-goals/
Countries around the world are working hard to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Overseas Development Institute’s Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Measuring Progress Across Countries, recently ranked the countries that have made significant progress on key targets of the first, fourth, and fifth goals. The rankings are in terms of absolute progress toward the targets, meaning that countries that have improved by the largest margins (from first measurement), regardless of initial conditions (and distance from the targets).
4. needle for meningitis ‘Tis the season for meningitis in SubSaharan Africa. Starting December and running through June, the seasonal drought will once again put more than 450 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, and Ethiopia at risk of developing meningitis. But this year, doctors have a new weapon in their fight; a new vaccine that works against the group A meningitis strain that causes more than 8 out of 10 cases on the continent. Moreover, it costs less than 50 cents a dose.
5. Cancun clinches a climate consensus For the first time the pledges by developing and developed nations to cut pollution have been brought under a UN agreement, despite vigorous opposition from Bolivia. A multi-billion dollar Green Climate Fund was established for poorer countries to deal with climate change and progress was made on deforestation and clean energy technology.
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