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 …

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 this Series paper, we review trends since the 2005 Lancet Series on Neonatal Survival to
inform acceleration of progress for newborn health post-2015. On the basis of multicountry …

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 …

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 …

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 The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival monitors
coverage of priority interventions to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for …

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 …

mothers and newborn babies were viewed as a dyad, and it was assumed that what was
good for the mother was good for the baby. Basic interventions to deal with newborn …

Childhood mortality in the world, as a whole, continues to fall. Despite increases in
population, the estimated annual number of deaths among children less than 5 years of age …