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Providing girls and women with a quality education is a highly effective tool to address poverty and fight disease.

Tuberculosis mortality in Chiapas has dropped 70% since 1990.

1,000 women die daily and 5,500 newborns die in the first week of life for lack of adequate medical care.

Meeting in Dakar calls for in-depth debate on most effective, equitable approaches.

The MDGs can be reached if rich countries keep their aid pledges, but the 2015 deadline will still be missed by up to six years.

UN development chief opens a new centre to promote the role of business in fighting poverty.

The feminisation of poverty in Africa remains acute. Yet the key to achieving the MDGs lies in unleashing the productive power of women.