SOWC 2008
The State of the World’s Children 2008 assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children today showcasing how these issues lie at the heart of human progress. While the Report highlights the remarkable advances made in the last four decades to half the annual number of child deaths, it also indicates that much more must be done since some 26,000 children under the age of five die every day, mostly from preventable causes. With the target date for Millennium Development Goal 4, – which aims to reduce child mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015– drawing near and many countries making insufficient progress to achieve it, critical questions arise, namely: How can momentum on maternal, newborn and child survival be recaptured and progress accelerated in the next eight years? What frameworks, strategies and resources are required to achieve the goal? How should countries set priorities in maternal, newborn and child health? Established solutions The key interventions needed to address the major causes of child deaths are well established and accepted. In fact, research reveals that only about 1 per cent of deaths among children under five have unknown causes and that up to two thirds of them are entirely preventable. The most basic, yet important, services and practices identified include:
Making maternal, newborn and child survival a global priority The State of the World’s Children 2008 returns to a theme that marked the launch of the series in the early 1980s: putting children’s survival, health and development first. Then, as now, UNICEF and its partners aspired to reduce the number of child deaths by about half by a target date. Then, as now, it proposed simple, effective, low-cost, practical solutions and strategies to reduce child mortality and improve child health. Now, as then, it is inviting partners from all walks of life – from religious leaders to Goodwill Ambassadors, from mayors to Heads of State, from sports personalities to parliamentarians, from professional associations to trade unions – to join the child survival and development movement. In order to achieve these objectives, the key stakeholders – governments and communities, donors and international agencies, non-governmental organisations and private sector collaborators—will need to unite their actions and partnerships in support of maternal and child survival and health. The survival of children must be placed at the heart of global efforts to advance humanity. ................................................................................... Child survival: The situation in Malaysia
State of the World's Children 2008 Video Newsline - SOWC 2008 26 June 2008: 15 April 2008: 26 February 2008: 22 January 2008: Newsline - Child Survival (global news) 10 December 2007: 17 October 2007: 13 September 2007: 22 August 2007: 20 June 2007: Millennium Development Goals |
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