UN Millennium Declaration Research Articles

Correlation of the principles of territorial integrity of states and self-determination of peoples in international law

The article presents a comparative analysis of the principles of territorial integrity of states and self-determination of peoples in terms of international law. The principle of equality and self-determination of peoples, as well as the territorial integrity and inviolability of state borders, are among the basic principles of international law.
 At first glance, there is a certain contradiction between the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination and the principle of territorial integrity of states, which provides that the territory of the state cannot be changed without its consent. The inability of the parties to find a peaceful solution to such a conflict leads to an increase in national conflicts, which often escalate into a military confrontation.
 From the content of the provisions of international law, it becomes clear that the principle of territorial integrity is aimed solely at protecting the state from external aggression. It does not apply only to those states that do not ensure the equality of the peoples living in them and do not allow free self-determination of such peoples. Conversely, if the state adheres to this principle in its activities, it is impossible to dismember it and violate its territorial integrity, "hiding" under this principle, because this state has already given peoples the right to express themselves within its borders.
 The right of the people to self-determination means that each nation is free to determine, without outside interference, its political status and to pursue its economic, social, and cultural development.
 In turn, the UN Millennium Declaration in fact spoke in favor of an only anti-colonial and anti-occupation interpretation of the principle of self-determination of peoples.
 Thus, the principle of the right to equality and self-determination of peoples does not encourage separatism and secession as a mandatory form of self-determination; on the contrary, the right to secession is directly limited to special cases, such as decolonization, the struggle against occupation and the racist regime.
 The same is confirmed in the practice of constitutional courts of states.

Literature Maternal Practice In Urban Areas

India is dedicated to reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set through the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000. MDGs ably summarize important international improvement worries, encompassing more than one dimension of financial and social poverty. As a result, they were integrated easily into the five-yrmaking plans framework of the United States. Specifically, with reference to fitness, the Eleventh Five Year Plan is positive approximately reaching the MDG goals for toddler and maternal mortality rate (IMR and MMR) through the stop of the plan duration. The plan additionally recognizes the want for motion on many fronts to reap this, along with progress get admission to fitness centers, institutional deliveries, dietary supplementation, and smoothing esting water and sanitation. However, attainment of those desires with inside the given time body is feasible best via focused awareness on prone corporations that extensively account for the united states’ burden of poverty and deprivation, and lag a long way in the back of with inside the united states’ march closer to improvement.

The dance of power and trust-exploring micro-foundational dimensions in the development of global health partnership

The global health system has significantly evolved over the last 30 years, particularly since the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000. The transformation in global healthcare partnerships has been most visible in the area of neglected tropical diseases, where technological innovation is directly linked to social change. Numerous strategic partnerships between different actors, including pharmaceutical companies, global and national health institutions and philanthropic organizations and disease specific foundations populate the landscape of neglected tropical diseases and yet, we know little on relational and structural aspects underpinning the partnerships. Our research uses a rich longitudinal case study – a tripartite public-private partnership formed between a global health organization, a major pharmaceutical company and a research university to develop a new drug for the treatment of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Development of new drugs is central to attain social change in a poverty stricken region. We adopt a micro-foundational perspective in analyzing strategic choices made by the partnership's Product Development Team (PDT) and unravel the dynamic interplay between power–trust relationship in such strategic business partnerships.

Woman in the diplomatic service: history, problems and prospects

Problem setting. Today, one of the priorities of the European policy direction is the effective implementation of such a principle as gender equality. Ensuring and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in socially important decisions, equal opportunities for them to combine professional and family responsibilities, preventing gender-based violence, and ensuring that women have a real opportunity to participate in diplomacy, including embracing high-level positions are one of the most important goals that modern democracies must fully achieve. Analysis of resent researches and publications. The topic of gender equality in their works was considered by such scholars as: O. Zakharova, T. Martsenyuk, V. Kobylyatska, E. Makarenko, G. Rudenko, T. Zonova, S. Khabibullina and others, but the current state of women’s participation in the diplomatic life of Ukraine scientists have considered superficially. Target of research. The purpose of this article is to consider the historical development of the principle of gender equality of women in relation to their participation in the diplomatic life of states, as well as to determine the current state and problems of compliance with this principle in Ukraine and identify ways to solve them. Article’s main body. Ukraine has ratified the main international instruments on equal rights and opportunities for men and women, namely the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and acceded to the UN Millennium Declaration and committed itself to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Defining for itself the provision and implementation of gender equality as one of the priorities of public policy. At the national level, gender equality is guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Labor Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men”, the State Program for Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men until 2016 and other legislation. The prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex was also included in the new law on civil service. However, the statistics and realities of our state say otherwise, as the number of women diplomats in high positions differs significantly from the number of men who hold them. The main reasons for this situation are traditional gender stereotypes, cultural customs, insufficient attention of foreign policy institutions to ensure gender equality and more. Of course, our state needs a modern revision and an effective legislative and practical solution to this issue. In this article, the authors review the historical development of the establishment and implementation of the principle of gender equality in different countries, namely the direct participation of women and their high positions in the performance of diplomatic functions in the diplomatic service; the opinions of scholars who express the positive impact of women’s participation in the diplomatic sphere, as well as the arguments of those who do not agree with this position; the current state of the quantitative indicator of women in positions in diplomatic missions of Ukraine, including in high positions, is studied; the modern directions of our state concerning the effective decision of a gender problem and full realization of this principle are analyzed; Obstacles that affect the implementation of a balanced gender policy in Ukraine are identified and some ways to solve them are suggested. Conclusions and prospects for the development. The authors came to the conclusion that the involvement of as many women as possible in the diplomatic service of Ukraine will ensure the effective implementation of gender equality and will indicate real reforms in the diplomatic sphere. Stereotypes about women’s weakness and vulnerability must be a thing of the past, as history has repeatedly shown strong women capable of changing their own country or even world trends. Therefore, for our country, the active encouragement of women to diplomatic work will only demonstrate the desire of a democratic state to seek new and innovative in this area. It is with the active participation of women in all world processes, including in diplomatic life, that we will be able to guarantee equality in society, peace and cohesion in different countries of the world.

The role of women self-help groups in reproductive health: an operational research

Background: In India, women in the reproductive age group (15-44 years) comprise 53% of women population (according to 2011 census). In spite of continuous evolution to improve reproductive health services in India, there is insufficient progress in decline of maternal mortality rate at 2 percent per annuum. One of the innovative strategies identified in reproductive and child health (RCH) II program and UN millennium declaration was establishment of women self-help groups (SHG’s) particularly in rural regions with high levels of poverty. So this study is aimed to assess the current role of women SHG’s in, maternal health, Family welfare and associated maternity benefit schemes. And also, to find out the constraints in involvement of women SHG’s and to assess the feasibility of enhancing their role in reproductive health services.Methods: It is a population based cross sectional study carried out at Nemam sub centre area of Nemam primary health care centre under Thiruvallur housing and urban development. Women who have been a SHG member for more than 6 months were assessed quantitatively and qualitatively after obtaining informed consent which was approved by institutional ethics committee. Data was compiled and analyzed using SPSS 15.0. Qualitative data was analyzed using coding techniques.Results: A total of 56 self-help groups from 10 villages resulted in a total study population of 392 individuals. Before identifying their role, their awareness was also evaluated. Ninety percent of the SHG women were aware of most of the components of maternal health services. But the role was good among 58% of the SHG women. This study brings forth the gap in knowledge and their role which is because they were not confident of their knowledge.Conclusions: In a developing country like India, involving the well organized and available grass root volunteers like women SHG’s in reproductive health services will have a great bearing on the maternal health and consequently on health of children and community at large.

Evaluación del ODM 6 en el África Subsahariana: un análisis territorial, utilizando un indicador sintético

Sub-Saharan Africa has the most serious HIV and AIDS epidemic in the world. As a result, the epidemic has devastating, widespread social and economic consequences, particularly for vulnerable groups such as children under the age of five and pregnant women. Given this situation, it is important to analyse which countries have been able to improve in progress toward fulfilling Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6: Combat HIV, AIDS and malaria in recent years. We analyse and quantify progress towards MDG 6 by comparing a large number of the variables defined in the UN Millennium Declaration in sub-Saharan African countries up to 2013. To construct the synthetic indicator from a multidimensional approach, we used the P 2 distance method.

MAPPING POVERTY HOT SPOTS IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA USING SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS

In September 2000 The Millennium Summit adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty with a deadline of 2015. Eight Millennium Development Goals were formulated of which the eradication of poverty given top priority. However, Malaysia’s participation with the UN in dealing with poverty, precede this when it committed itself with the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006) programme, which was then reinforced when the Millennium Declaration was made in 2000. Nationally, poverty eradication as well as bridging the inequality gap among the major ethnic groups and states has been the main development goal in Malaysia’s development agenda since independence. In this regards, the principle of “growth with equity” has been the central theme in all Malaysia’s development policies and efforts since independence. Although Malaysia has made significant achievements in reducing the incidence of aggregate poverty across the country from 8.9% in 1995 down to 1.7% in 2012, there still exist pockets of poverty in the rural areas, in certain states/regions and among ethnic groups, as well as in some urban areas. This shows that formulating planning and policy implementation to eradicate poverty now needs to be more spatially focused for the implementation to be more effective. Recognising the incidence of poverty through standard statistical data tables alone is no longer adequate in formulating planning and policy implementation. Through spatial autocorrelation analysis the pattern of distribution of poverty in space over a period of time can easily be visualised and hotspots of incidence of poverty identified. This paper attempts to show how this analysis can assist in focusing efforts to eradicate poverty in Malaysia.

MAPPING POVERTY HOT SPOTS IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA USING SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS

In September 2000 The Millennium Summit adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty with a deadline of 2015. Eight Millennium Development Goals were formulated of which the eradication of poverty given top priority. However, Malaysia's participation with the UN in dealing with poverty, precede this when it committed itself with the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) programme, which was then reinforced when the Millennium Declaration was made in 2000. Nationally, poverty eradication as well as bridging the inequality gap among the major ethnic groups and states has been the main development goal in Malaysia's development agenda since independence. In this regards, the principle of “growth with equity has been the central theme in all Malaysia's development policies and efforts since independence. Although Malaysia has made significant achievements in reducing the incidence of aggregate poverty across the country from 8.9% in 1995 down to 1.7% in 2012, there still exist pockets of poverty in the rural areas, in certain states/regions and among ethnic groups, as well as in some urban areas. This shows that formulating planning and policy implementation to eradicate poverty now needs to be more spatially focused for the implementation to be more effective. Recognising the incidence of poverty through standard statistical data tables alone is no longer adequate in formulating planning and policy implementation. Through spatial autocorrelation analysis the pattern of distribution of poverty in space over a period of time can easily be visualised and hotspots of incidence of poverty identified. This paper attempts to show how this analysis can assist in focusing efforts to eradicate poverty in Malaysia.

Актуальные проблемы соотношения универсальных и национальных правовых ценностей в условиях современных обществ

<p> В статье анализируется проблематика универсалистских и релятивистских концепций, а также соотношение универсальных и национальных правовых ценностей в условиях современного мира.</p><p>Концепция универсальных правовых ценностей получила развитие в ряде международно-правовых актов: Венской декларации и Программе действий 1993 г., Декларации о праве и обязанности отдельных лиц, групп и органов общества поощрять и защищать общепризнанные права человека и основные свободы 1998 г., Декларации тысячелетия ООН 2000 г. и др.</p><p>Отнесение норм и ценностей, содержащихся в международных документах, к числу универсальных, разделяется не всеми авторами. Концепция универсализма имеет своих противников — релятивистов, отрицающих существование ценностей всеобщего, универсального характера.</p><p>Существующие в современном мире процессы глобализации не привели к образованию универсального социума, основанного на универсальной системе ценностей, однако способствовали интенсификации процессов познания универсальных правовых ценностей. Тем не менее интенсивно развивающиеся интеграционные процессы начинают все более ощутимо оказывать влияние на неевропейские регионы, в том числе и в области прав человека. Универсальные представления о ценности человеческой жизни, равенстве, свободе, справедливости и т. д., так или иначе, присущи всем цивилизациям.</p><p>Между универсальными и национальными правовыми ценностями существует взаимосвязь, которая характеризуется наличием универсальной ценностной составляющей в национальном законодательстве.</p><p>Исследование показало, что, несмотря на неоднозначность восприятия универсальных правовых ценностей в различных цивилизациях, начался процесс регионализации, т. е. создания стандартов в области защиты прав человека в регионах, исходя из их культурных, исторических особенностей, но с опорой на международные документы.</p><p>Тем самым ряд правовых ценностей может быть отнесен к числу универсальных, даже при сохранении специфики, связанной с культурно-историческими особенностями того или иного общества. Среди общепризнанных правовых ценностей можно назвать ценности равенства, неприкосновенности человеческой личности, уважения его жизни, достоинства, права на свободу и личную неприкосновенность, права на собственность, судебную защиту и т. д.</p>

Sustainable youth community development in Egypt

Egypt passed through a critical political transitions and revolutions starting from early 2011 until the arrival of the democratically elected President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. The primary slogans of protestors during Egypt’s first 2011 Revolution were ‘bread, freedom, and justice for all (national dignity). These very same issues were addressed previously at the Millennium Summit in September 2000, where the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, and set up the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), proceeded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Both the MDGs and SDGs aim to extend the rights of each person to quality healthcare, basic education, shelter, and security. Although, achieving the Development Goals is a top priority on the agenda of Egyptian policy makers, some of the goals have not been achieved. In addition, the global economic crisis since 2008 has imposed new challenges and restrictions that decelerated achievement within the agreed time frame set by the United Nations.Egypt has strong potential growth possibilities, a significant human resource base, and a substantial quantity of un-recycled wastes that could be directed toward sustainable development.The intention of this paper was to discuss and propose a methodology, which promotes a productive workforce, and addresses environmental concerns in aims of supporting the UN Millennium Declaration.

'A Food Basket of the Region'? Towards Realisation of the Right to Food in Uganda

Whereas many presume that hunger and malnutrition occur mostly in times of conflict, 90 per cent of the persons affected are victims of protracted lack of access to adequate food supply. Thus, despite having well stocked food stalls and markets dotted all over the country, Uganda has more than a fifth of its population unable to obtain good diet regularly. Most, if not all of these persons facing hunger daily are landless or small holders who are unable to use the land productively.The right to food is enshrined in various international instruments to which Uganda is a party. At the FAO World Food Summit in 1996, member states agreed to reduce by half the number of persons undernourished by the year 2015. This was reiterated in the UN Millennium Declaration that was adopted by the General Assembly in 2000.But despite these international developments, access to food is still a challenge for many developing nations, Uganda inclusive. Partly, this is due to a general lack of awareness as regards the right to food.This article thus sheds light on the nature of the right to food, the implications upon various entities and the obligations of the Ugandan government. Recommendations will then be made as to how the state may realise the right to food.

Equality as a Global Goal

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established following the UN Millennium Declaration, which was approved by the UN General Assembly in September 2000. Described by some as the “world's biggest promise,” they set out a series of time-bound targets to be achieved by the international community by 2015, including a halving of extreme poverty, a two-third reduction in child mortality, a three-quarter reduction in maternal mortality, and universal primary education. The MDGs were, however, often criticized for having a “blind spot” with regard to inequality and social injustice. Worse, they may even have contributed to entrenched inequalities through perverse incentives. As some have argued, in order to achieve progress toward the MDG targets at the national level, governments focused their attention on the “easy to reach” populations and ignored more marginalized, vulnerable groups. The aim of this essay is to examine the extent to which this widespread criticism has been successfully addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), approved by the UN General Assembly in September 2015.

Before Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): why Nigeria failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

World leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed the nations of the world to a new global partnership, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and other time-bound targets, with a stated deadline of 2015. Fifteen years later, although significant progress has been made worldwide, Nigeria is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, including bureaucracy, poor resource management in the healthcare system, sequential healthcare worker industrial action, Boko Haram insurgency in the north of Nigeria and kidnappings in the south of Nigeria. The country needs to tackle these problems to be able to significantly advance with the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the 2030 target date.

Mortality risks in children aged 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic empirical analysis.

Health priorities since the UN Millennium Declaration have focused strongly on children younger than 5 years. The health of older children (age 5-9 years) and younger adolescents (age 10-14 years) has been neglected until recently, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, and mortality measures for these age groups have often been derived from overly flexible models. We report global and regional empirical mortality estimates for children aged 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries, and compare them with ones from existing models. For this empirical analysis, we obtained birth-history data from surveys done over a 25-year period from 1986 by the Demographic and Health Surveys programme for 84 World Bank low-income and middle-income countries, and data about household deaths in China from their 1990 and 2010 censuses. We used these data to calculate mortality risks for children aged 5-14 years, and compare these risks to corresponding estimates of mortality in children younger than 5 years in the same countries. We used regression analysis to model these associations, generate estimates of the risks, and derive estimates of the numbers of deaths for 1990 and 2010 by applying those risks to population estimates from the UN World Population Prospects (WPP) 2012 Revision. We then compared the numbers of deaths with those given by the UN WPP itself and by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study. The mean risk of a child dying at age 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries is about 19% of the risk of dying between birth and age 5 years (12% at age 5-9 plus 7% at age 10-14). According to our estimates, the total number of deaths at ages 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income regions fell from about 2·4 million (95% CI 1·9-2·7) in 1990 to about 1·5 million (1·2-1·8) in 2010. From our estimates we concluded there to have been 200,000 (16%) more deaths at ages 5-14 than in the UN report; however, our estimates exceeded GBD estimates by more than 700,000 (87%). The average annual rate of decline in mortality at age 5-9 years (about 3%) slightly exceeded that for ages 0-4 years (2·8%), but progress has been slower for age 10-14 years (about 2%). Our analysis suggests that mortality risks nowadays in the age range 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries are rather higher (relative to mortality in children younger than 5 years) than would be expected on the basis of historical evidence. Our findings broadly lend support for the UN WPP mortality estimates, but are almost double those underpinning GBD 2010. Global policy emphasis on reduction of mortality in children younger than 5 years should be broadened to include older children and adolescents. The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Millennium Development Goals, MDG’S; Case of Kosovo

The Millennium Development Goals, present in the UN Millennium Declaration 2000, are a set of goals to reduce poverty, disease, and deprivation of the world’s poorest people This paper examines the Development and increscent that Millennium Development goals have lived in a transition country like Kosovo, which is one of the less developed countries in Europe. Furthermore, Kosovo is one of the ancient lands in Balkan passing through many wars and difficulties in achieving growth and prosperity, international presence and effect in all the institutions and government have helped Kosovo to increase the overall economical, political and social life. MDG’s are becoming a very important part of changing the standard of living in many of the countries in the world, where living conditions are not in an acceptable position. Also, it critically evaluates each of 8 MDG’s and the improvement that they have achieved during these post war years, even though Kosovo is not officially part of MDG’s Agreement that all the states have signed. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n14p123

New development alternatives or business as usual with a new face? The transformative potential of new actors and alliances in development

The state, market and civil society constitute the three main institutional domains of the ‘development’ landscape. Perceptions of these three actors have evolved over time alongside conceptualisations of what constitutes and best promotes ‘development’. The array of contributions in this special issue points towards a worrying implication for the transformative potential of development activities and interventions. While the new diversity in actors and alliances brings new opportunities for development, we see the majority placing the responsibility for development in the hands of the state and market. Furthermore, the hollowing out of civil society – apparent from the lack of priority given to it in the Global South and the promotion of development as ‘responsible consumerism’ in the North – represents a missed opportunity for consolidating the progress made in the commitment to poverty reduction since the UN Millennium Declaration. Reaching greater transformative potential would require focusing as much on inclusive social development as on inclusive economic development. Doing so would tackle the big questions of power and inequality that remain among the root causes of poverty today.

The Future of Public Sector HRM in Mauritius from an Accountability Perspective

The collective vision of sustainable human development, as expressed by the international community in the UN Millennium Declaration, is a challenge for countries that are not adequately equipped to face the challenges of globalization. A key step in the right direction is the institutionalization of a transparent and accountable public sector that would be truly responsive to a country’s need. As in other parts of the world, Mauritius has embarked on reform programs in response to new opportunities brought about by globalization and the “rise” of Africa. Although public sector reform has appeared on the agenda of successive governments since early 1990s, many critics feel that the progress could have been faster and more substantial. In particular, the traditional omnipresent state has been much criticized for keeping bureaucratic red tape and inefficiency, and generally a poor level of accountability with respect to its obligations. Thus, in order to fully capitalize on the spreading trend of globalization and the immense opportunities offered by the “rise” of Africa, it becomes necessary to look into the reforms to the Public Services as far as human resource management is concerned. This paper lays down the state of affairs in this area and proposes an analysis of the pertinence and efficacy of such reforms from an accountability perspective. Many positive results are noted amongst those ministries that have implemented the Performance Management System, but many other findings are also problematic, such as: 1) Lack of clarity on how PLM is promoting organizational goals; 2) Many staffs unconvince that PMS will help improve their career prospects; 3) Few public sector organizations are able to use the PMS as a basis for staff training plans or for promotion decisions; 4) The appraisal forms are cumbersome and unrealistic; 5) PMS seems to be missing the point of addressing real management challenges; 6) Poor senior management “focus” and commitment to PMS. These findings echo what already exists in many case study reports and literature reviews, wherein we find that performance management systems seem to fall foul of their lofty ideals. Nevertheless, the Mauritian Public Sector has implemented a Performance-Based Budgeting (PBB) system, as a driving force behind the emphasis on identifying goals and measures. This complements the PMS in pushing public sector departments and ministries in the direction of aligning their activities, including HRM, toward achieving strategic goals and measuring progress toward those goals. This can help clarify future direction, establish priorities, initiate program performance improvement, increase effectiveness and accountability, and help managers improve service delivery, decision-making and internal management. But from good intentions to real implementation, the gap is yet to be addressed. Political interference, budgetary constraints, top-down management and centralized recruitment and selection are definite barriers to an HRM Accountability System.

An Index of Progress Towards the MDG1 in Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa

In this article we present a new proposal for measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, applied to a group of countries particularly affected by poverty in the context of southern Africa and the Horn of Africa. Our index is novel in that it has been constructed taking into account a larger number of variables defined in the UN Millennium Declaration which are generally considered to determine countries’ levels of underdevelopment. As technique applied to the data, provided by the UN, we used the P2 distance of Pena method and applied it to the year 2007; the last year for which data are available. This index incorporates variables that permit a ranking of the countries of southern Africa and the Horn of Africa in terms of those partial indicators. To sum up, the objective is to produce a global indicator of fulfilment of the MDG1.

UN Constitutional Assistance Projects in Comprehensive Peace Missions: An Inventory 1989–2011

UN Constitutional Assistance Projects in Comprehensive Peace Missions: An Inventory 1989–2011

An Index of Progress Towards the MDG 6 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Combat HIV, AIDS and Malaria

In this article we present a new proposal for measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6 to combat HIV, AIDS and malaria in the context of sub-Saharan Africa; one of the areas of the planet most affected by the AIDS epidemic and malaria. With this aim, we develop a global indicator of fulfilment of this goal. Our index was constructed using the variables defined in the UN Millennium Declaration. To construct the index, we used the P2 distance method and applied it to the year 2007; the last year for which data are available. This index incorporates variables that permit the countries of sub-Saharan Africa to be ordered at territorial scale in terms of the value of the partial indicators. Our indicator constitutes a novel contribution insofar as it was constructed using a large number of variables.