Publications - Released in 2015
The era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has witnessed dramatic and unprecedented progress in reducing child and maternal deaths. As a result, 6.4 million fewer children died in 2013 compared to 1990, and maternal deaths have been cut by almost half. By building on these gains and mobilizing additional resources, it is clear that the world possesses the means to make preventable deaths among women and children a thing of the past, laying the foundations for a healthier, more secure and more equitable world.
A pivotal moment occurred in 2010, when the United Nations Secretary-General launched the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health (Global Strategy), primarily to accelerate progress towards achievement of MDGs 4, 5 and 6, which were lagging furthest behind. As a result of five years of hard work and innovative partnership under the Every Woman Every Child movement, the momentum for progress and change has grown steadily. Our task now is to nurture and build on this forward motion and on the lessons learned, until we finally end the preventable deaths of women, newborns, children and adolescents in all parts of the world.