The Lancet Global Health
Aug 2014 Volume 2 Number 8 e431 – 487
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/issue/current

Editorial
Moving the needle on neonatal and child health
Zoë Mullan
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Babies and children feature heavily in this August issue of The Lancet Global Health, as well they should at a time when unfinished agendas are top of the agenda. In its 2014 report on the Millennium Development Goals, released on July 7, the UN described the under-5 mortality goal as “slipping away from achievement by 2015”. The research and opinion in this month’s issue harnesses a variety of different angles from which to “move the needle” on neonatal and child health. How can we ensure that neonatal interventions reach the very poorest families who need them the most? Are we doing enough for children with tuberculosis? What is the role of malaria in low birthweight? And are there any unintended adverse consequences of the introduction of new vaccines in Africa?

Burden of childhood tuberculosis in 22 high-burden countries: a mathematical modelling study
Peter J Dodd, Elizabeth Gardiner, Renia Coghlan, James A Seddon

Estimated risk of placental infection and low birthweight attributable to Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa in 2010: a modelling study
Patrick G T Walker, Feiko O ter Kuile, Tini Garske, Clara Menendez, Azra C Ghani

Effects of health-system strengthening on under-5, infant, and neonatal mortality: 11-year provincial-level time-series analyses in Mozambique
Quinhas F Fernandes, Bradley H Wagenaar, Laura Anselmi, James Pfeiffer, Stephen Gloyd, Kenneth Sherr