Making the world's children count
The Journal : Current Issue
Peter Byass, Tedros A Ghebreyesus
Progress in counting the world's children, and particularly deaths by cause in those aged under 5 years, is reported by WHO in today's Lancet. The report includes new methods of accounting for the large part of the world's population, particularly in poorer regions, where individuals are not routinely counted.1 Reliable numbers are important for the world to take seriously the Millennium Development Goals, of which the fourth aims to reduce child mortality in those aged under 5 by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.2 At least now we have a better chance of knowing if and when that goal is reached.
Peter Byass, Tedros A Ghebreyesus
Progress in counting the world's children, and particularly deaths by cause in those aged under 5 years, is reported by WHO in today's Lancet. The report includes new methods of accounting for the large part of the world's population, particularly in poorer regions, where individuals are not routinely counted.1 Reliable numbers are important for the world to take seriously the Millennium Development Goals, of which the fourth aims to reduce child mortality in those aged under 5 by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.2 At least now we have a better chance of knowing if and when that goal is reached.
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