On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda sets out 17 aspirational objectives, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), associated with 169 targets, which will serve governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society to chart the path of human advancement over the next 15 year...

In September 2015, the international community came together to agree on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a plan of action for people, the planet, and prosperity. Ambitious and far-reaching as they are, they are built on three keystones: the elimination of extreme poverty, fighting climate change, and a commitment to fighting injustice and inequality. Critical to the achievement of ...

678 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 February 22, 2014 On Sept 25, 2013, the UN General Assembly held a special session devoted to progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 develop ment agenda. Building on more than a year of consultation, advocacy, and lobbying, the debate provides an opportunity to take stock of health-related proposals. Described as a generational opport...

when UNAIDS put forward its vision of " Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths " , the end of AIDS only existed in an aspirational future. Now people are talking concretely about it. In a report released in July 2013 outlining the United Nations Secretary-General's vision for the next global development agenda, Ban Ki-moon called on all countries to 'realize the ...

Following the recent expiry of the United Nations' 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), new international development agenda covering 2030 water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) targets have been proposed, which imply new demands on data sources for monitoring relevant progress. This study evaluates drinking-water and sanitation classification systems from national census questionnaire conte...