4 million is roughly the number of babies born every year in the USA or in the 23 largest
countries of western Europe. It is also roughly the number of AIDS and malaria deaths …

Summary To achieve the Millennium Development Goal for child survival (MDG-4), neonatal
deaths need to be prevented. Previous papers in this series have presented the size of the …

The proportion of child deaths that occurs in the neonatal period (38% in 2000) is
increasing, and the Millennium Development Goal for child survival cannot be met without …

In the summer of 2003, The Lancet published five articles on child survival, written by the
Bellagio Child Survival Group. 1–7 These publications have had tangible effects (panel 1). A …

In many low-income countries newborn babies face difficult odds in living past the first month
of life. About 3· 8 million deaths occur every year in babies younger than 28 days—of which …

This is the second of five papers in the child survival series. The first focused on continuing
high rates of child mortality (over 10 million each year) from preventable causes: diarrhoea …

The Lancet 2020 Campaign1 on child and adolescent health is a welcome call for a
renewed focus on children. With less than a decade remaining to achieve the UN …

In this second article of the neonatal survival series, we identify 16 interventions with proven
efficacy (implementation under ideal conditions) for neonatal survival and combine them into …

The series of papers on child survival that have appeared in The Lancet over the past 5
weeks describes a major publichealth challenge: more than 10 million children dying each …

Progress in reducing global maternal mortality stalled from 2016 to 2020 according to the
first UN report on trends during this period. Published on Feb 23, the report reveals that …