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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations established 17 goals to be achieved by 2030, as part of the Agenda for Sustainable Development. These 17 goals tackle a variety of life aspects that aim to form a more sustainable and equitable world and are listed as follows:

No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
Good Health and Well-being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
Decent Work and Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
Reduced Inequality: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Sustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Life Below Water: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
Life on Land: Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Partnerships for the Goals: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

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Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

This goal aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages and has 9 targets underneath it, where each target focuses thoroughly on a crucial issue. These targets are:

Target 3.1: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
Target 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.
Target 3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases.
Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.
Target 3.5: Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.
Target 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
Target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information, and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs.
Target 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Target 3.9: By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution and contamination.

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Target 3.a: Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate.
Target 3.b: Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, and ensure a functioning vaccine market.
Target 3.c: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training, and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing states.
Target 3.d: Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.

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Target 3.1: Reduce Maternal Mortality

The UN is aiming to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, globally. This target precisely works towards 3 main aspects which are during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Achieving this target can guarantee the well-being of women which constitute 1/3 of society and, therefore provide a critical indicator of the overall quality of the world's healthcare.

To reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births, remarkable efforts should be made in healthcare infrastructure, access to quality maternal and reproductive health services, skilled birth attendants, and the overall health status of women.

Why is Maternal Health Listed Under SDG3?

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SDG3 aims to ensure healthy lives and well-being for everyone and that surely includes women. As well as SDG5 that aims to ensure gender equality, where this goal's primary aim is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. There is no world where gender equality exists, if women are not being taken care of, so working towards target 3.1 is extremely vital.

To measure the progress towards achieving this goal, we need indicators that can help us draw conclusions so by taking care of women in their 3 stages, we can have a viable indicator.

If we take care of pregnant women and ensure their well-being, that also counts as taking care of her child, at least for the first few months of the child's life.

Looking at this goal in the long term can help us see and benefit from women's power in a way where women can help in nurturing the economic and social developments in the socities they live in.

If maternal mortality is reduced, its alignment with accomplishing the previously set Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the ongoing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are going to be closer to fulfilling their targets. In turn, the world's global development can significantly prosper.

Every single death is a tragedy and we can never turn a blind eye to any of them, so all efforts should be shifted to ensure a long quality life for every individual globally, keeping in mind that women are able to carry lives along theirs.