Progress has been made globally in improving the coverage of key maternal, newborn, and
early childhood interventions in low-income and middle-income countries, which has …

Considerable progress has been made over the past decade towards Millennium
Development Goal 4. The number of deaths among children younger than 5 years has …

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 …

Remarkable progress has been made towards halving of maternal deaths and deaths of
children aged 1–59 months, although the task is incomplete. Newborn deaths and stillbirths …

Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

Between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality rate declined by 53%, resulting in
approximately 48 million more children reaching their fifth birthday than would have …

This is the third paper in the series on child survival. The second paper in the series,
published last week, concluded that in the 42 countries with 90% of child deaths worldwide …

Our Series on optimising child and adolescent health and development follows on almost
two decades after the original Lancet Series on child survival and its corresponding call for …

Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

In 2007, The Lancet declared that early childhood development was a global challenge of
the greatest urgency. 1-4 4 years later, we have made progress, but still have far to go in …