Empowering communities for maternal and newborn health.

摘要

Maternal and child deaths represent two of the most resilient targets among the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At current trends, a large proportion of the high-burden countries will be unable to meet reduction targets by 2015. Achieving the MDG 4 target of reducing newborn and child mortality will require concerted efforts to scale up evidence-based interventions, especially community-based preventive and therapeutic strategies in primary care. To improve maternal survival, we need to scale up facility-based services, as well as availability of commodities and health workers in primary care. A major challenge is the appropriate mix of strategies for demand creation as well as provision of services.