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The eight Millennium Development Goals derived from the Millennium Declaration mark a turning point in the history of development. Unlike previous approaches, they represent a genuine global compact, with Goal 8 identifying actions that developed countries must take if targets are to be achieved. Pulling together targets from various UN conferences throughout the 1990s—including the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)—the MDGs look beyond income to other dimensions of poverty and thereby explicitly acknowledge the contribution of health to poverty reduction. Moreover, it is recognized that they are a package of synergistic goals and cannot be achieved individually.