| Goal 1:Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
Malnutrition erodes human capital, reduces resilience to shocks and infections with the consequent reduction in productivity (impaired physical and mental capacity). |
| Goal 2:Achieve universalprimary education |
Malnutrition reduces mental capacity. Malnourished children are less likely to enroll in school, or more likely to enroll later. Current hunger and malnutrition reduces school performance. |
| Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women |
Better-nourished girls are more likely to stay in school and to have more control of future choices |
| Goal 4: Reduce child mortality |
Malnutrition is directly or indirectly associated with more than 50% of all child mortality and it is the main contributor to the burden of disease in the developing world |
| Goal 5: Improve maternal health |
Maternal health is compromised by an anti-female bias in allocations of food, health and care. Malnutrition is associated with most major risk factors for maternal mortality |
| Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
Malnutrition hastens onset of AIDS among HIV-positive individuals. It weakens resistance to infections and reduces malarial survival rates. |
