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Countdown to 2015
Maternal, New Born and Child Survival
Building a Future for Women and Children
The 2012 Report
Lead writers: Jennifer Requejo (PMNCH/Johns Hopkins University), Jennifer Bryce (Johns Hopkins University), Cesar Victora (University of Pelotas)
Subeditors/writers: Aluisio Barros (University of Pelotas), Peter Berman (Harvard School of Public Health), Zulfiqar Bhutta (Aga Khan University),
Ties Boerma (WHO), Bernadette Daelmans (WHO), Adam Deixel (Family Care International), Joy Lawn (Saving Newborn Lives), Elizabeth Mason (WHO),
Holly Newby (UNICEF), Ann Starrs (Family Care International) Support from:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and the Governments of Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom
World Health Organization and UNICEF 2012
Available online PDF [56p.] at: http://bit.ly/KEniCx
Country Profiles : http://bit.ly/KEE5pb
Website: http://bit.ly/MtAOev
This report highlights country progress—and obstacles to progress—towards achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.
Countdown to 2015 focuses on:
• on evidence based solutions—health interventions proven to save lives—and on the health systems, policies, financing and broader contextual factors that affect the equitable delivery of these interventions to women and children
• on data, because building a better future and protecting the basic human right to life require understanding where things stand right now and how they got to where they are today
• on what happens in countries—where investments are made or not made, policies are implemented or not implemented, health services are received or not received and women and children live or die
Content:
- Countdown headlines for 2012: saving the lives of the world’s women, newborns and children
- Countdown to 2015: tracking progress, fostering accountability
- The Countdown country profile: a tool for action
- Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5
- Coverage along the continuum of care
- Determinants of coverage
- Milestones of progress on the path to success
- Accountability now for Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5
- Country profiles
Annex A Country profile indicators and data sources
Annex B Definitions of Countdown indicators
Annex C Definitions of policy and health systems indicators
Annex D Essential interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
Annex E Countdown priority countries considered to be malaria endemic
Annex F Details on estimates from the Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation used in the Countdown report
Notes
References
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Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
mailto:ruglucia@paho.org