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Journal Article
Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health — So Near and Yet So Far
2013
Overview
This article in the Global Health series assesses international progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals for the health of women and children. With less than 3 years to go, many countries are failing to reach targets set for maternal and child mortality.
A little more than 13 years ago, world leaders assembled in New York to sign the Millennium Declaration to address some of the greatest moral dilemmas of our times — unequal global health, poverty, and inequities in development — and to establish a set of interrelated goals and targets to be met by 2015. Key goals included the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 targeting a reduction in mortality among children younger than 5 years of age by two thirds and MDG 5 targeting a reduction in maternal mortality by three quarters, both from 1990 base figures. With less than 3 . . .
