Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

T Boerma; J Requejo; CG Victora; A Amouzou; A George; I Agyepong; C Barroso; AJD Barros; ZA Bhutta; RE Black; J Borghi; K Buse; LC Aguirre; M Chopra; D Chou; Y Chu; M Claeson; B Daelmans; A Davis; J DeJong; T Diaz; S El Arifeen; F Ewerling; M Fox; S Gillespie; J Grove; T Guenther; A Haakenstad; AR Hosseinpoor; S Hounton; L Huicho; T Jacobs; S Jiwani; Y Keita; R Khosla; ME Kruk; T Kuo; C Kyobutungi; A Langer; JE Lawn; H Leslie; M Liang; B Maliqi; A Manu; H Masanja; T Marchant; P Menon; AC Moran; OJ Mujica; D Nambiar; K Ohiri; LA Park; GC Patton; S Peterson; E Piwoz; K Rasanathan; A Raj; C Ronsmans; G Saad-Haddad; ML Sabin; D Sanders; SM Sawyer; ICM da Silva; NS Singh; K Somers; P Spiegel; H Tappis; M Temmerman; LME Vaz; RR Ved; LP Vidaletti; P Waiswa; FC Wehrmeister; W Weiss; D You; S Zaidi

Journal article

Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

T Boerma, J Requejo, CG Victora, A Amouzou, A George, I Agyepong, C Barroso, AJD Barros, ZA Bhutta, RE Black, J Borghi, K Buse, LC Aguirre, M Chopra, D Chou, Y Chu, M Claeson, B Daelmans, A Davis, J DeJong Show all

Lancet | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30104-1

Abstract

Building upon the successes of Countdown to 2015, Countdown to 2030 aims to support the monitoring and measurement of women's, children's, and adolescents' health in the 81 countries that account for 95% of maternal and 90% of all child deaths worldwide. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the rate of decline in prevalence of maternal and child mortality, stillbirths, and stunting among children younger than 5 years of age needs to accelerate considerably compared with progress since 2000. Such accelerations are only possible with a rapid scale-up of effective interventions to all population groups within countries (particularly in countries with the highest mortality and i..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Susan Sawyer Author

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Awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Funding Acknowledgements

Our work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the US and Norwegian Governments. The Wellcome Trust provided support for equity analyses. The funders had no role in the conceptualisation of the paper or in the material presented. AG is supported by the South African Research Chair's Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of South Africa (grant 82769). Any opinion, finding and conclusion, or recommendation expressed in this material is that of the author, and the National Research Foundation does not accept any liability in this regard. We thank Dilip Thandassery Ramachandran (WHO) for compiling the drivers database with the health systems, policies, and domestic financing indicators, Rachel White (Johns Hopkins University) for help with logistics, and Tiziana Leone (London School of Economics) for work on the abortion policy database.