A tipping point for child survival, health, and nutrition

摘要

In the final push toward the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there is growing evidence that the world is making ever faster progress on reducing maternal and child deaths. The annual rate of decline for maternal mortality has risen from 2% in 1990-2000 to 34% in 2000-10.1 Similarly, the rate of decline in under-5 mortality has drastically accelerated in the past decade-from 1-8% per year during the 1990s to 3-2% between 2000 and 2011. This success has spurred governments, civil society organisations, faith-based groups, and individual advocates to launch Committing To Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, a global effort to accelerate action on maternal, newborn, and child health durinq the next two decades.