Tracking progress in maternal, newborn, & child survival
Subtitle: the 2008 report
Published: 2008
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789280642841
Subjects: Maternal health services; Infant health services; Infants; Mortality; Newborn infants; Mothers
Other titles: Countdown to 2015 :
Description: According to new findings, few of the 68 developing countries that account for 97% of maternal and child deaths worldwide are making adequate progress to provide critical health care needed to save the lives of women, infants and children. Parliamentarians attending the 118th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Cape Town will join global health experts and policy makers to discuss the role they can play in accelerating action to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on reducing child and maternal mortality. Over 10 million women, newborns and children under five still die each year from causes which are largely preventable and treatable.
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