Explaining progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 for child survival in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era (1990-2015) the government in Mainland Tanzania and partners launched numerous initiatives to advance child survival including the comprehensive One Plan for Maternal Newborn and Child Health in 2008-2015 and a "sharpened" One Plan strategy in early 2014. Moving into the Sustainable Development Goal era, the government needs to learn from successes and challenges of striving towards MDG 4.

Methods

We expand previous work by presenting data for the full MDG period and sub-national results. We used data from six nationally-representative household surveys conducted between 1999 and 2015 to examine trends in coverage of 22 lifesaving maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition (MNCH&N) interventions, nutritional stat

SUBMITTER: Niyeha D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature