Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis
- PMID: 21937100
- DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61337-8
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis
Abstract
Background: With 4 years until 2015, it is essential to monitor progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Although estimates of maternal and child mortality were published in 2010, an update of estimates is timely in view of additional data sources that have become available and new methods developed. Our aim was to update previous estimates of maternal and child mortality using better data and more robust methods to provide the best available evidence for tracking progress on MDGs 4 and 5.
Methods: We update the analyses of the progress towards MDGs 4 and 5 from 2010 with additional surveys, censuses, vital registration, and verbal autopsy data. For children, we estimate early neonatal (0-6 days), late neonatal (7-28 days), postneonatal (29-364 days), childhood (ages 1-4 years), and under-5 mortality. We use an improved model for estimating mortality by age under 5 years. For maternal mortality, our updated analysis includes greater than 1000 additional site-years of data. We tested a large set of alternative models for maternal mortality; we used an ensemble model based on the models with the best out-of-sample predictive validity to generate new estimates from 1990 to 2011.
Findings: Under-5 deaths have continued to decline, reaching 7·2 million in 2011 of which 2·2 million were early neonatal, 0·7 million late neonatal, 2·1 million postneonatal, and 2·2 million during childhood (ages 1-4 years). Comparing rates of decline from 1990 to 2000 with 2000 to 2011 shows that 106 countries have accelerated declines in the child mortality rate in the past decade. Maternal mortality has also continued to decline from 409,100 (uncertainty interval 382,900-437,900) in 1990 to 273,500 (256,300-291,700) deaths in 2011. We estimate that 56,100 maternal deaths in 2011 were HIV-related deaths during pregnancy. Based on recent trends in developing countries, 31 countries will achieve MDG 4, 13 countries MDG 5, and nine countries will achieve both.
Interpretation: Even though progress on reducing maternal and child mortality in most countries is accelerating, most developing countries will take many years past 2015 to achieve the targets of the MDGs 4 and 5. Similarly, although there continues to be progress on maternal mortality the pace is slow, without any overall evidence of acceleration. Immediate concerted action is needed for a large number of countries to achieve MDG 4 and MDG 5.
Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Comment in
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Grappling with uncertainties along the MDG trail.Lancet. 2011 Sep 24;378(9797):1119-20. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61419-0. Epub 2011 Sep 19. Lancet. 2011. PMID: 21937101 No abstract available.
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Gender empowerment: beyond education.Lancet. 2011 Sep 24;378(9797):1118. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61491-8. Lancet. 2011. PMID: 21943690 No abstract available.
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Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4.Lancet. 2012 Mar 31;379(9822):1193-4; author reply 1194-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60503-0. Lancet. 2012. PMID: 22464376 No abstract available.
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Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4.Lancet. 2012 Mar 31;379(9822):1193; author reply 1194-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60502-9. Lancet. 2012. PMID: 22464377 No abstract available.
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