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CSU 10/2011: INFANT AND UNDER-FIVE MORTALITY IN AF ...

CSU 10/2011: INFANT AND UNDER-FIVE MORTALITY IN AFGHANISTAN As we move towards 2015, we need to get better data than we have, including data from conflict and postconflict areas. ‘Commonly used estimates of infant and under-five mortality in ... read more

CSU 7/2011: INFANT AND UNDER-FIVE MORTALITY IN AFG ...

CSU 7/2011: INFANT AND UNDER-FIVE MORTALITY IN AFGHANISTAN As we move towards 2015, we need to get better data than we have, including data from conflict and postconflict areas. ‘Commonly used estimates of infant and under-five mortality in A ... read more

CSU 108/2011: TWO ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GO ...

1) HANS ROSLING ON THE MDGs   Food for thought at http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade.html He rebuts the view that 'there is no progress in Africa.'   2) AFTER 2015? ‘From our cross-sectoral analysis, we conc ... read more

CSU 130/2011: POST PARTUM FAMILY PLANNING AND CHIL ...

POST PARTUM FAMILY PLANNING AND CHILD SURVIVAL   This presentation shows the impact on child survival of postpartum family planning.   With four short years left to achieve MDG4, is it time, or past time, to put child survival funding i ... read more

CSU 128/2011: FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTS OF P ...

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTS OF PRECEDING BIRTH INTERVALS ON NEONATAL, INFANT, AND UNDER-FIVE-YEARS MORTALITY   ‘. . .if all women would wait at least 24 months to conceive again, under-five deaths would fall by 13 percent. The effec ... read more

CSU 127/2011: THE WORK OF UNFPA AND THE MDGs

From the UNFPA homepage: http://www.unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/icpd/pid/5072#mdg5 ‘MDG 4: Reduce child mortality ‘Family planning prevents unintended pregnancies. Unwanted children are more prone to illness and premature death. Fam ... read more

CSU 146/2011: HEALTH SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE IN SUB-SA ...

‘Governance was strongly associated with U5MR and moderately associated with the U5MR quintile ratio.’ Research article Health systems performance in sub-Saharan Africa: governance, outcome and equity. Anna E Olafsdottir , Daniel D Rei ... read more

CSU 166/2011: MDG 5 AND FAMILY PLANNING

   Family planning has been cited as essential to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (5) by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (6), and, as such, part of the fifth Millennium Development Goal targets universal ... read more

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