Goals and Objectives

Access to Reproductive Health

• Accessibility to reproductive health services to all individuals of appropriate ages through the primary health care system as soon as possible and no later than the year 2000.
  
  
• Meeting the family planning needs of all countries' populations as soon as possible and no later than the year 2015 so as to provide universal access to a full range of safe and reliable family planning methods and lawful reproductive health services to individuals and couples who need them.

Mortality Reduction

• Reduction of infant mortality to 50 per 1,000 live births by the year 2000, to below that level by 2005, and to below 35 per 1,000 live births by 2015.
  
  
• Reduce child mortality to 70 per 1,000 live births by the year 2000, to below 60 per 1,000 by 2005, and to below 45 per 1,000 by 2015.
  
  
• Reduce maternal mortality levels to one-half of 1990 levels by the year 2000, to less than 100 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2005, and to less than 60 per 100,000 by 2015.
  
  
• Attain an average life expectancy worldwide of at least 66 years by the year 2000, more than 70 years by 2005.

Universal Education

• Achieve universal access to quality education, particularly among girls, to combat illiteracy and to eliminate gender disparities in access to education.
  
  
• Keeping girls and adolescents in school and closing the gender gap in primary and secondary education by the year 2005.
  
  
• Ensure the complete access to primary school education by both girls and boys as quickly as possible and, in any case, before the year 2015.