The Federal Government said Nigeria has attained its targets on Human Immuno-Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and maternal mortality ahead of the September 2015 date of the Millennium Development Goals.
The Director of Programmes in the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, Ogenyi Ochapa, said this at a sensitisation workshop on transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the 2015 MDGs Report for Conditional Grant Scheme to Local Governments’ Technical Assistants and Zonal Technical Officers, held in Abuja.
Ochapa, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said that since Nigeria commenced the implementation of the MDGs in 2006, appreciable progress had been recorded, particularly in the areas of health, water, gender equality, reduction in the spread of HIV/AIDs, the prevalence of hunger and global partnership.
The statement also hinted that Nigeria had over two years before the deadline attained the Hunger Target in Goal 1, with the Food and Agricultural Organisation honouring the country for the achievement in Rome.
Ochapa noted that the final MDGs exit Report, which will contain the actual achievement in the implementation of MDGs was still being collated, adding however that the Maternal Mortality Ratio had dropped from 1,000 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 243 per 100,000 live births in 2014, indicating success in the attainment of the target.
He said, “In 1990, the Maternal Mortality Ratio was estimated at 1,000 per 100,000 live births; in 2008, this figure decreased to 545 and in 2012, the figure was 350. The 2014 MMR figure stands at 243 per 100,000 live births which means that this target has been achieved.
