The Lancet
Sep 27, 2014 Volume 384 Number 9949 p1159 – 1236
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorials
Women, children, and adolescents: the post-2015 agenda
The Lancet
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As the global health community and government representatives gathered in New York this week to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and considered their successors the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is some good news to share and some not so good. Child mortality in under-5-year-olds worldwide has fallen from 12•7 million in 1990 to 6•3 million in 2013. Although the present rate of decrease is still not enough to meet MDG 4 (a reduction of under-5 child mortality by two thirds by the end of 2015), it is still remarkable progress.

Reducing the number of disaster refugees
The Lancet
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Natural disasters are inevitable but are the population displacements they cause also unavoidable? 22 million people were made refugees by natural disasters in 2013, according to a report released last week from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council. This number is three-times higher than that for displacements caused by conflicts in 2013.

Series
Midwifery
Country experience with strengthening of health systems and deployment of midwives in countries with high maternal mortality
Wim Van Lerberghe, Zoe Matthews, Endang Achadi, Chiara Ancona, James Campbell, Amos Channon, Luc de Bernis, Vincent De Brouwere, Vincent Fauveau, Helga Fogstad, Marge Koblinsky, Jerker Liljestrand, Abdelhay Mechbal, Susan F Murray, Tung Rathavay, Helen Rehr, Fabienne Richard, Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Sabera Turkman

Improvement of maternal and newborn health through midwifery
Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Luc de Bernis, James Campbell, Soo Downe, Vincent Fauveau, Helga Fogstad, Caroline S E Homer, Holly Powell Kennedy, Zoe Matthews, Alison McFadden, Mary J Renfrew, Wim Van Lerberghe