advanced search

Search within

Updates under

CSU 51/2009: MARKED INCREASE IN CHILD SURVIVAL AFT ...

CSU 51/2009: MARKED INCREASE IN CHILD SURVIVAL AFTER FOUR YEARS OF  INTENSIVE MALARIA CONTROL In heavily endemic countries, malaria evaluation often looks at U5MR as well as declines in malaria-specific mortality. In Bioko, Equato ... read more

CSU 72/2009: BIRTH INTERVALS AND MDG 5/ THE VATIC ...

CSU 72/2009: BIRTH INTERVALS AND MDG 5/  THE VATICAN VIEW ON BIRTH SPACING  Do I err in believing that there is no UN policy endorsement of birth spacing as a way of more rapidly achieving MDG 4 and MDG 5? Is this not a remar ... read more

CSU 76/2009: MORE ON BIRTH SPACING AND THE MILLE ...

  CSU 76/2009:  MORE ON BIRTH SPACING AND THE  MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS  1) READER COMMENT ON CSU 71, BIRTH SPACING AND MDG 4  Writing from Cape Town, Jon Rohde wonders when the US government will wake &nbs ... read more

CSU79/2009: CHILD MORTALITY 30 YEARS AFTER ALMA AT ...

CSU 79/2009: CHILD MORTALITY 30 YEARS  AFTER ALMA ATA/ COUNTDOWN TO 2015  These pieces from The Lancet are food for thought. The world has made progress since Alma Ata, but has some way to go.  Malaria is widely rec ... read more

CSU 11/2010: RWANDA'S DECLINES IN UNDER-FIVE MORTA ...

CSU 11/2010: RWANDA'S DECLINES IN UNDER-FIVE MORTALITY   Rwanda's declines in infant and under-five mortality are the envy of neighboring countries. How did she do it? Here is one explanation, based on analysis of successive demographic and he ... read more

CSU 20/2010: ACSD IN WEST AFRICA: A RETROSPECTIVE ...

 CSU 20/2010: ACSD IN WEST AFRICA: A RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION       One finding from this multicountry evaluation is the difficulty of getting significant results when some interventions (here, against malaria and pne ... read more

CSU 49/2010: THREE ON PROGRESS TOWARDS MDG 5

read more

CSU 58/2010: VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTS AND INFANT MORT ...

CSU 58/2010: VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTS AND INFANT MORTALITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES As countries find that most of their remaining IMR is from neonatal causes, work like the following will be of great practical importance.  Many countries now g ... read more