Child Deaths On Pace To Drop Another 50 Percent Globally By 2030

Public health works. In 2000, the United Nations drafted aggressive goals for both standards of living and public health. So far, they are ahead of schedule on both. Two analyses by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington show that  international efforts to address maternal and child mortality have resulted in millions of lives being saved globally. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were created to drive maternal and child deaths down by 2015. They had been dropping in most countries since the 1980s but the pace accelerated and, if the trend continues, child deaths will fall from over 6 million in 2013 to fewer than 4 million in 2030. read more

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