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    Champions for children: state of the world’s mothers 2011

    Save the Children Fund, USA, 2011
    This State of the World’s Mothers report ranks 164 countries on women’s access to health care, education and opportunities. Whereas millions of children are alive today because of past investments in lifesaving programs, the authors note that 22,000 children still perish per day, mostly from preventable or treatable causes.
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    Saving new born lives in Nigeria: new born health in the context of the integrated maternal, newborn and child health strategy

    Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria, 2011
    This report contains new data that shows that as the death toll in Nigeria is falling, the percentage of deaths that happen in the first month of life is increasing. The authors report that newborn deaths now make up 28% of all deaths under five years compared to 24% two years ago.
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    The effects of a very young age structure in Yemen

    Population Action International, 2011
    Yemen has the most youthful age structure in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa, with three-quarters of its population under the age of 30. It also has a very high fertility rate. Periodic terrorist attacks against foreign targets and its location as a base for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have highlighted the geopolitical significance of this country.
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    Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000–2010) with country profiles: Taking stock of maternal, newborn and child survival

    Countdown to 2015, 2010
    This report reviews progress on MDGs 4 and 5 over the period of 2000–2010.  The Countdown to 2015 initiative collects and analyses data from the 68 countries that account for at least 95 per cent of maternal and child deaths. It produces country profiles that present coverage data for a range of key health services, including:
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    Countdown to 2015

    The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountab
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    Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008

    World Health Organization, 2010
    Millennium development goal 5 Target 5A calls for the reduction of maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. It has been a challenge to assess the extent of progress due to the lack of reliable and accurate maternal mortality data – particularly in developing-country settings where maternal mortality is high.
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    The Grandmother Project

    The Grandmother Project (GMP) is an international development organisation working globally to improve the health and well being of women and children.Areas of focus:
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    Community health workers monitor neonatal health in Bangladesh

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
    Four million babies die each year in their first four weeks of life. Better neonatal survival requires cost-effective action at the community level and good links with the healthcare system. Trained community health workers could spot the danger signs that signal a baby’s need for hospital treatment.
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    Does ‘improved’ sanitation make children healthier? Household pit latrines and child health in rural Ethiopia

    Young Lives, 2009
    Some 250,000 Ethiopian children die each year from poor sanitation, hygiene and water. Ethiopia has ambitious plans to ensure universal access to pit latrines in all rural areas by 2012. But will people use them?
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    The Lancet Maternal Health Survival Series Healthy motherhood: an urgent call to action

    The Lancet, 2006
    The authors assert that the fifth Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal mortality by two-thirds by 2015 will best be achieved by adopting a core strategy of intrapartum care based in health centres. A key message is that the professionalisation of maternity care must be prioritised.

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