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1. MDG8 calls on development partners to work together to ensure trade is fair, heavily indebted countries receive relief, funds are available to tackle poverty, essential drugs are available and affordable, and poor countries benefit from new information and communication technologies. In 1996, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative so countries encumbered by debt could get back on their feet. In 2006, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) was launched to provide additional resources to HIPCs to meet the MDGs. By June 2010, $76.4 billion in HIPC debt relief had been committed to 36 countries, of which 30 countries have received an additional $45.8 billion under the MDRI. For the 36 countries that have benefited from debt relief, expenditures on health, rural infrastructure, education and other needs increased on average from 6.5% of GDP in 2001 to 10.4% of GDP in 2013.
2. MDG 6 aims to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. HIV, malaria and other diseases have a direct and indirect impact on rural development, agricultural productivity and food and nutrition security.
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