Eleven years after adopting millennium development goals (MDG), the UN has observed a reduction in maternal mortality rate by over 50 percent in South Asia, a report said here Friday.The MDG, adopted by world leaders in the year 2000, are a set of targets to reduce global poverty and improve living standards by 2015.
"Between 1990 and 2008, maternal mortality declined by 53 percent in South Asia, including Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Afghanistan among others," the report said. But it added the South Asian region still "lags in nutrition, sanitation, and gender equality".
The ratios of girl education were also startling: "74 girls were enrolled in tertiary education as compared to 100 boys for South Asia."
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