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Rethinking the Millennium Development Goals for the world of today
SARAH EDWARDS explains how the goals can be made more meaningful for women in developing countries

Thousands of ethnic minority women in the world's poorest countries are dying from HIV/Aids, TB, malaria and complications in pregnancy and childbirth, yet their deaths remain hidden because governments and international bodies fail to record their health outcomes.

Many more women's lives remain in peril amid efforts to meet the 2015 deadlines for the UN Millennium Development Goals and beyond them.

And some communities in countries described as middle-income states face the danger of abandonment by international donors in spite of their worsening health plight.

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