MDGs are a rallying point for development thinking as well as for national development strategies. Achieving the MDGs can be speeded up by using the policy synergies among MDG targets to achieve socially just and inclusive development.
In South Asia, a woman dies every three minutes from complications related to pregnancy. UNICEF is acting to improve maternal health.
An estimated 164 million children of primary school age live in South Asia, but 42 million (25 per cent) do not attend school.
Women Deliver - A Global Conference on Maternal Health. Each year an estimated 536,000 women die needlessly from pregnancy and childbirth complications — or in the simple act of giving birth.
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Almost half, or 46 per cent, of all South Asian children are underweight – a total of 78 million.
Report Card on Nutrition
AVOID FRAUD: How to protect yourself
Justice for children in detention in Afghanistan: Press release
Publications
Evaluation South Asia
Statistical PocketbookSocio-economic Indicators for South Asia, 2008
