Why create a child survival partnership?
The Child Survival Partnership (CSP) provides a forum for coordinated action
to address the major conditions that affect children's
health: it enables governments and partners to agree
on consistent approaches and stimulates concerted
efforts towards their implementation.
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Child Survival is a global imperative
The child survival revolution of the 1970s and 1980s focused the
world’s attention on that fact that approximately one third (29%)
of the global burden of disease is in children under 5 years of
age and child deaths account for about one fifth (20%) of all
deaths occurring annually in the world.
We have the tools to save children's lives
A review by international health experts, published in The Lancet
in 2003, shows that we already have the tools available to save
six million children this year from preventable or treatable
childhood illnesses.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
By adopting the Millennium Development Goals in September 2000,
world leaders committed to reducing child mortality by two-thirds
by the year 2015. A recent series of articles on child survival
published in The Lancet has alerted the world that this goal can
be achieved if a limited set of cost-effective interventions would
be implemented at very high levels of coverage.
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Rolling Conference on Child Survival, 13-14 December 2005, University of London
The Child Survival Partnership is hosted by UNICEF.
Ms. Shahida Azfar is the interim Director and Dr. Flavia Bustreo is
the interim Deputy Director.
We encourage all interested organizations to join us in reducing
child mortality. For more information, please contact:
Child Survival Partnership Secretariat
3 UN Plaza, Room 23-14
New York, New York
(212) 824-6576
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