TRACKING PROGRESS IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL The 2008 Report TRACKING PROGRESS IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL THE 2008 REPORT Tracking Progress in Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival The 2008 Report ISBN: 978-92-806-4284-1 © The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2008 Cover photo © UNICEF/HQ07-1153/Shehzad Noorani This is a working document. It has been prepared to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and to stimulate discussion. Participating agencies and institutions accept no responsibility for errors. The designations in this publication do not imply an opinion on legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities, or the delimitation of frontiers. The views expressed in this document are solely the responsibility of the contributors. The document may be freely reviewed, abstracted, or translated in part or whole, but not for sale nor use in conjunction with commercial purposes. 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NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL For more information contact UNICEF 3 United Nations Plaza The 2008 Report New York, NY 10017 USA www.countdown2015mnch.orgTRACKING PROGRESS IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL THE 2008 REPORT TRACKING PROGRESS IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL THE 2008 REPORT Abbreviations Contributors AARP Average annual rate of reduction Lead Authors Acknowledgements ARV Anti-retroviral treatment Jennifer Bryce (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Jennifer Harris CHERG Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group Requejo (PMNCH, Switzerland) The Countdown Group would like to thank the following: DHS Demographic and Health Surveys GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines Initiative Special Recognition UNICEF/Strategic Information Section for use of global databases, GFATM Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria Tessa Wardlaw, Archana Dwivedi, Holly Newby of UNICEF, for technical preparation of country profiles, and review of report text. Particular Hib Haemophilus influenzae type B support and substantial contribution to all phases of report preparation recognition goes to Xiaodong Cai, Khin Wityee Oo, and Me Me ILO International Labour Organization and production Khine for their input and review of country profiles. Irene Deineko for IMCI Integrated management of childhood illness administrative support and convening of review meetings. ISCO International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 Countdown Working Group ITNs Insecticide-treated nets Jasmina Acimovic, UNICEF, USA WHO regional offices and headquarters staff who contributed to data LSHTM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Priscilla Akwara, UNICEF, USA collection: Christopher Drasbek, Susan Farhoud, Olivier Fontaine, JMP WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation Henrik Axelson, PMNCH, Switzerland Phanuel Habimana, Ardi Kaptinisingh, Aigul Kuttumaratova, Ramez MDGs Millennium Development Goals Stan Bernstein, UNFPA, USA Mahaini, Sudhansh Malhotra, Shameen Qazi and Mariana Trias. MERG Roll Back Malaria Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aga Khan University, Pakistan MICS Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Robert Black, Johns Hopkins University, USA The Countdown communications team for their inputs in shaping the NMR Neonatal Mortality Rate Ties Boerma, WHO, Switzerland key messages, media strategy and Countdown Executive Summary: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Josephine Borghi, LSHTM, UK Genine Babakian, Flavia Bustreo, Marie Agnes Heine, Olivia Lawe- PMNCH Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Jennifer Bryce, Johns Hopkins University, USA Davies, Kate Kerber, Ruth Landy, Jessica Malter, Tunga Namjilsuren, SWAps Sector-Wide Approaches Flavia Bustreo, PMNCH, Switzerland George Ngwa, Jennifer Requejo, Jacqueline Toupin, Michelle Zelsman. U5MR Under-five mortality rate Dennis Caillaux, Global Movement for Children, Switzerland UNGASS United Nations General Assembly Special Session Naomi Cassirer, ILO, Switzerland Christa Fischer-Walker and Jeremy Schiefen of Johns Hopkins UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund Eleanora Cavagnero, WHO, Switzerland University, USA for preparing maps. WFFC World Fit for Children David Clark, UNICEF, USA WHO World Health Organization Giorgio Cometto, Save the Children, UK The DevInfo initiative for the development of the database and the Bernadette Daelmans, WHO, Switzerland production of the Country Profiles. Nita Dalmiya, UNICEF, USA Maria Dal Poz, WHO, Switzerland UN Country Team in South Africa, particularly the UNICEF Sub-Office in Archana Dwivedi, UNICEF, USA Cape Town for administrative and logistics support. Leslie Elder, Saving Newborn Lives / Save the Children, USA David Evans, WHO, Switzerland The PMNCH Secretariat for convening meetings for Countdown Vincent Fauveau, UNFPA, Switzerland Core Groups and PMNCH colleague Tigest Yilma Desta for providing Helga Fogstad, NORAD, Norway administrative support. Anastasia J. Gage Tulane University, USA Youssouph Gaye, Ministry of Health, Senegal Working Groups Wendy Graham, University of Aberdeen, UK Giulia Greco, LSHTM, UK Coverage Indicators: Fred Arnold, Linda Bartlett, Stan Bernstein, Neeru Gupta, WHO, Switzerland Zilfiqar Bhutta, Robert Black, Ties Boerma, Jennifer Bryce, Flavia Richard Horton, The Lancet, UK Bustreo, Simon Cousens, Trevor Croft, Bernadette Daelmans, Leslie Julia Hussein, University of Aberdeen, UK Elder, Anastasia Gage, Wendy Graham, Kate Kerber, Stein-Erik Kruse, Monir Islam, WHO, Switzerland Joy Lawn, Elizabeth Mason, Jeffrey Mecaskey, Carine Ronsmans, Peter Kareen Jabre, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Switzerland Salama, Harshad Sanghvi, Lale Say, Werner Schultink, Anuraj Shankar, Kate Kerber, Saving Newborn Lives / Save the Children, USA Nancy Terreri, Anne Tinker, Vincent Fauveau, Cesar Victora, Tessa Betty Kirkwood, LSHTM, UK Wardlaw Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives / Save the Children, USA Samantha Lobis, Columbia University, USA Equity: Henrik Axelson, Stan Bernstein, Ties Boerma, Wendy Graham, Viviana Mangiaterra, WHO, Switzerland Kate Kerber, Betty Kirkwood, Jeffrey Mecaskey, Carine Ronsmans, Elizabeth Mason, WHO, Switzerland Cesar Victora Jeffrey Mecaskey, Save the Children, UK Anne Mills, LSHTM, UK Financial Flows: Henrik Axelson, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Josephine Borghi, Holly Newby, UNICEF, USA Flavia Bustreo, Guilia Greco, Anne Mills, Tim Powell-Jackson Maryanne Neill, UNICEF, USA Arletty Pinel, UNFPA, USA Policy Review: Bernadette Daelmans, Vincent Faveau, Andy Haines, Tim Powell-Jackson, LSHTM, UK Monir Islam, Stein-Erik Kruse, Viviana Mangiaterra, Jeffrey Mecaskey, Sonya Rabeneck, PMNCH, Switzerland Ann Starrs, Nancy Terreri, Stewart Tyson, Patrick Unterlerchner Jennifer Harris Requejo, PMNCH, Switzerland Carine Ronsmans, LSHTM, UK Peter Salama, UNICEF, USA David Sanders, University of Western Cape, South Africa Harshad Sanghvi, JHPIEGO, USA Lale Say, WHO, Switzerland Werner Schultink, UNICEF, USA Anuraj Shankar, WHO, Switzerland Meera Shekar, World Bank, USA Robert Scherpbier, WHO, Switzerland © UNICEF/HQ05-2159/Giacomo Pirozzi Francisco Songane, PMNCH, Switzerland Marcus Stahlhofer, WHO, Switzerland Ann Starrs, Family Care International, USA Sissel Hodne Steen, NORAD, Norway Nancy Terreri, UNICEF, USA Anne Tinker, Save the Children, USA Jim Tulloch, AusAid, Australia Stewart Tyson, DFID, UK Patrick Unterlerchner, PMNCH, Switzerland Costanza Vallenas, WHO, Switzerland Cesar Victora, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil Tessa Wardlaw, UNICEF, USA TRACKING PROGRESS IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL THE 2008 REPORT TRACKING PROGRESS IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN & CHILD SURVIVAL THE 2008 REPORT v v Summary The last few years have seen enormous and The Countdown pursues these objectives through Interventions and indicators Key findings of the 2008Countdown welcome developments in global public health and conferences, publications and follow-up regional and All interventions tracked through the Countdown The report contains profiles for each of the 68 nutrition. There is growing recognition – increasingly country activities, focusing attention on progress are empirically proven to reduce mortality among Countdown priority countries. Benin is shown as an backed by resources – that achieving the Millennium towards national-level coverage of proven interventions mothers, newborns or children. Coverage with broader example in figure 2. Benin was selected because it is Development Goals (box 1) will demand radical in countries with the highest maternal and child approaches, such as antenatal and postnatal care, the first country profile (in alphabetical order) where changes to the scale and scope of effective strategies. mortality rates. The activities of the Countdown are delivery and reproductive health services also need data were available for all major indicator categories. The Countdown to 2015 responds to these calls for guided by four principles (box 2). to be tracked, as they provide the basic platform for Figure 3 presents median national level coverage for change. delivery of multiple effective interventions to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. Coverage Levels Countdown Principles The Millennium