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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Maternal and neonatal tetanus are important causes of maternal and neonatal mortality,
claiming about 180 000 lives worldwide every year, almost exclusively in developing …

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 …

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 …

The latest estimates of under-5 mortality from the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality
Estimation (IGME) show a one-third decline at the global level of under-5 mortality rates from …