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 …

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 …

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 …

Every year about 70% of neonatal deaths (almost 3 million) happen because effective yet
simple interventions do not reach those most in need. Coverage of interventions is low …

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 global community recently declared a commitment to “create an environment—at the
national and global levels alike—which is conducive to development and to the elimination …

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 …

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 …

Summary 10 years ago, The Lancet published a Series about child survival. In this Review,
we examine progress in the past decade in child survival, with a focus on epidemiology …