A decade ago world leaders identified deaths of women in childbirth and of children under the age of 5 years as two of eight key problems that must be tackled in order to lift mil¬lions out of extreme poverty by 2015. Ten years on and international agencies are less than optimistic that the goal of cutting deaths among under 5s by two thirds by 2015 will be met without a great deal more effort. With only five years to go, the millennium development goals to reduce maternal and child mortality remain a long way off target.
Read the BMJ article by Tatum Anderson that examines the problems by clicking here.
