some countries and regions are still not on track to reach the goals and require intensified efforts to reduce poverty and child and maternal mortality rates and to improve access to drinking water and sanitation globally the target for income poverty target a and the target for safe drinking water target c are on track to be met while steady but insufficient progress has been made for other targets including universal primary education target a reducing child mortality target a and combating malaria and other global diseases target c furthermore there has been either stagnation or regress for some targets the proportion of people who suffer from hunger target l