Integrated community-based postpartum care for mothers and newborns: a crucial intervention to achieve MDG 4 and 5
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Global commitment for reducing maternal and child mortality has been reaffirmed by the governments through the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. Emanating from the Millennium Declaration, commitment to eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) united countries around the world in the fight against poverty, illiteracy, gender discrimination, maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases (e.g. AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria), and environmental degradation. The targets for MDG 4 and MDG 5 are to reduce under-five mortality by two thirds and the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990-2015 [1].
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