The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Accessed 30 March 2013

Can We Save More Than Four Million Children’s Lives In the Next 1,000 Days?
Ray Chambers, founder of the Amelior Foundation

“…On December 31, 2015, 1,000 days from April 6, we’ll reach the deadline for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. These goals represent the most important effort to improve lives in history, endorsed by leaders from 193 countries and 23 international agencies, and they include three that are dedicated to global health, focused largely on children under five and pregnant mothers:
– Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality — specifically, reducing by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
– Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health — including reducing by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio
– Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Other Diseases — including eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV and reducing deaths from malaria to near zero

To reach the goal of decreasing deaths of children who have not yet reached their fifth birthday to four million in 2015, we estimate that 4.4 million children’s deaths must be averted in the next 1,000 days. Can the global community from the South, North, East and West, government leaders, business people, community health workers, moms and dads and students across the world work together to reach this goal?…”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ray-chambers/millennium-development-goals_b_2954477.html