Holly Newby

TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival (Countdown) initiative as mentioned in this paper was a multistakeholder initiative of more than 40 academic, international, bilateral, and civil society institutions to monitor progress and raise the visibility of the health of mothers, newborns, and children.

TL;DR: Focused efforts will be needed to improve coverage of priority interventions, especially for priorities such as contraceptive services, care in childbirth, postnatal care, and clinical case management of illnesses in newborn babies and children.

TL;DR: By focusing on undernutrition and overweight, the GNR puts malnutrition in a new light and identifies bottlenecks in the scale-up of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches and highlights actions to accelerate coverage and reach.

TL;DR: Equity should be accounted for when planning the scaling up of interventions and assessing national progress in coverage of interventions for the health of mothers and children, and rapid changes in overall coverage were associated with improved equity.

TL;DR: The Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Survival has focused its 2014 report on how much has been achieved in intervention coverage in these groups, and on how best to sustain, focus, and intensify efforts to progress for this and future generations.