Renewed commitment to agenda for child survival needed

"Last week in Washington, D.C., a coalition of global leaders and international organizations launched the Child Survival Call to Action in an effort to drive down the risk of preventable child deaths to roughly equivalent levels in all countries by 2035," Victoria Fan, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), writes in this post in the center's "Global Health Policy" blog. "[I]t's a (relatively) old agenda in global health, arguably dating back to the time of UNICEF's third Executive Director James Grant (1980-1995) who pushed to recognize the 'global silent emergency' and to reduce preventable child deaths," she writes, concluding, "For this agenda to survive, the world will need not only renewed commitment on old things (to save new people, no less!), [but] we'll need unified strategies buttressed by new financial resources, not unlike on the response previously driven in fighting AIDS" (6/19).