	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
	Achieve universal primary education
	Promote gender equality and empower women
	Reduce child mortality
	Improve maternal health
	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
	Ensure environmental sustainability
	Develop a global partnership for development

Improve maternal health

Goal 5: Improve maternal health
- Target 12: Halve the maternal mortality rate, between 2001 and 2009
  Indicator 13: Maternal mortality rate
  Indicator 14: Proportion of births attended by skilled health
  personnel

Maternal mortality rate decreased significantly, from 34 deaths/100,000 born-alive children in 2001 to 15 deaths/100,000 born-alive children in 2006. Hence, the maternal mortality target was met several years in advance.

Importantly, maternal mortality by abortion reached the lowest level in 20 years decreasing from 17 deaths/100,000 born-alive children in 2001 to 5 deaths in 2006. The growing popularity of modern reproductive health methods, to which UN’s interventions contributed, played a critical role in the achievement of this spectular result.

For this goal go the website of UNFPA in Romania