Children's health in crisis:
community, national and international responses
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Edition Summary:
Impatient for revolution
The success of the first child survival revolution, in the 1980s, is saving some six million lives each year. But communities are still rife with a milieu that allows disease and death.
This edition of Global Future focuses on the push to achieve the “child health” Millennium Development Goal – Goal 4: reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. As the Millennium Development Goals reach their half-way point this year, there is global agreement that:
- we could achieve MDG 4 if we had sufficient political will;
- we cannot achieve MDG 4 without addressing the needs of mothers (MDG 5);
- there are known cost-effective interventions that we aren’t implementing sufficiently; and that
- we need a whole health system that is sufficiently resourced, in health workers and funds, and involves government and civil society working together.
This edition also shows glimpses of World Vision’s re-focused health strategy, which has strategically aligned our work with the wider global movement on health to help achieve our goals. Our hope and prayer is for the necessary groundswell of political will for a new child survival revolution. The cost of inaction is huge – lost economic and intellectual potential and millions of lives. The cost to respond is small.
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