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(o) Enhancing public-private partnerships for health-care service delivery,
encouraging the development of new and affordable technologies and their
innovative application and developing new and affordable vaccines and medicines
needed, in particular, in developing countries;
(p) Welcoming the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and
Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of
national plans and strategies, in order to significantly reduce the number of
maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths as a matter of immediate concern by
scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in
sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty
reduction and nutrition;
(q) Welcoming also the various national, regional and international
initiatives on all the Millennium Development Goals, including those undertaken
bilaterally and through South-South cooperation, in support of national plans and
strategies in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, energy, water and
sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition as a way to reduce the number of
maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths.
Millennium Development Goal 4 – Reduce child mortality
74. We commit ourselves to accelerating progress in order to achieve Millennium
Development Goal 4, including by:
(a) Scaling up efforts to achieve integrated management of childhood
illnesses, particularly actions to address and prevent the main causes of child
mortality, including newborn and infant mortality, these being, inter alia,
pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition.
This can be achieved by
developing, implementing and evaluating appropriate national strategies, policies
and programmes for child survival, preventive pre-natal, para-natal and post-natal
measures, vaccinations and immunization and by working to ensure that medicines,
medical products and technologies are affordable and available. In addition, this can
be achieved by improved nutrition, including nutrition prior to birth, as well as by
strengthening specific health interventions, including emergency obstetric care and
skilled attendance at birth to reduce maternal and child mortality. International
support to national efforts, including financial resources, will continue to be key in
this regard;
(b) Sustaining major successes and scaling up prevention and vaccination
programmes as one of the most efficient tools to reduce child mortality, including
the measles, polio, tuberculosis and tetanus campaigns, by ensuring sufficient
funding, political commitment and conscientious implementation of control
activities, especially in priority countries;
(c) Taking action to improve child nutrition through an integrated package of
essential interventions and services, including, in particular, access to nutritious
food, appropriate supplements, prevention and early management of diarrhoeal
diseases and information and support for exclusive breastfeeding and for the
treatment of severe acute malnutrition;
(d) Maintaining progress with regard to combating malaria and the extension
of the use of insecticide-treated bed nets;
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