MDG4 Lessons Could Save More Children’s Lives After 2015

By Carmel Williams, Executive Editor, Health and Human Rights Journal If human rights-based approaches to child health had informed the Millennium Development Goal addressing child survival, the already impressive reduction in child mortality since 1990 could have been even greater. Elisa Diaz-Martinez and Elizabeth Gibbons argue that the narrow framing of MDG4 created a rupture from the previous 25 years’ worth of global endeavors to advance child survival in tandem…