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  Progress for children: beyond averages - learning from the MDGs

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2015

  This eleventh edition of Progress for Children is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It presents latest data that show while the MDGs helped drive tremendous advances in the lives of the world’s children, development efforts in the past 15 years failed to reach millions of the most disadvantaged.
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  Global Report on MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health

  2010

  It is important to recognize that improving maternal health goes hand in hand with the improvement of other social determinants that go beyond women’s needs in health care services.
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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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  Last chance for the world to live up to its promises?: why decisive action is needed now on child health and the MDGs

  World Vision, 2008

  This short briefing paper considers child health in the context of the three health-focused MDGs, identifies concrete steps needed in the coming months to put the MDGs back on track, and summarises World Vision’s own efforts to contribute to their achievement.
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  Estimated global resources needed to attain universal coverage of maternal and newborn health services

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the amount of additional resources that are needed to scale up maternal and newborn health services in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals, specifically goal 5 (to improve maternal health), goal 4 (to reduce child mortality), and goal 6 (to combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases).
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  Who's got the power: transforming health systems for women and children 2005

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This report, produced by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Maternal Health and Child Health, outlines challenges in maternal and child health around the world, and considers key interventions to address these challenges, focusing on health systems.
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  How does progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor?: analysis of demographic and health survey data

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This paper, published in the British Medical Journal, examines how inequality in the under-five mortality rates of the poorest and least poor groups changes as progress is made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in 22 countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia.
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  Meeting Millennium Development Goals 3 and 5

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we have made the least progress towards achieving MDG 5 – to improve maternal health.
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  Progress for children: a report card on immunization

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This volume of Progress for Children reports on the progress of immunisations by countries and region.The report finds that East Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and Middle East/North Africa are almost achieving the 90 per cent target for DPT3 (national and district coverage).

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