Sentences with phrase «for child survival»

The powerful benefits of breastfeeding for child survival, growth and development are well known.

Breastfeeding is the closest thing the world has to a magic bullet for child survival.

«Lee not only had long experience with global health, but real energy and real drive as well,» says William Foege, a senior investigator on child development at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development who has known Lee for decades.

With an increasing share of under - 5 deaths occurring within the neonatal period, accelerated change for child survival requires a greater focus on building strong health services, ensuring that every birth is attended by skilled personnel and making hospital care available in an emergency.

As we enter the final 500 days of the MDG era, our analysis underlines a major transition for child survival symbolised by the fact that preterm birth complications are now the leading cause of under - 5 deaths globally, not just of deaths in the neonatal period.»

In recent years, global and national leaders have highlighted the importance of MNCH, such as the strategic framework for child survival and health - related MDGs presented by UN partners and adopted at an African Union meeting in 2005 [20], and the upcoming July 2010 Summit of the African Union on the theme «Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Development in Africa.»