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This analysis 1) explores UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3.3 and 3.4, which lay out targets to eradicate selected communicable diseases and reduce premature deaths from non-communicable maladies, and 2) contemplates what achieving the SDG goals could mean for development in Africa. One of the key arguments made in the text is that although creating a set of global development targets is a laudable exercise, the SDGs do not take into account the varying levels of national development that exist in the world, and therefore have set up unrealistic goals for many countries in Africa. As a result, the text’s authors conclude that these nations could hypothetically make tremendous progress in health outcomes and still fail to achieve desired SDG goals.