Universal health coverage is at the centre of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: “to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all, at all ages”, and is described as the key driver for achieving health-related targets. Monitoring progress towards

During the past decade, there has been great progress in women's, children's, and adolescents' health. For example, maternal mortality has dropped by 35 percent while mortality rates for children under the age of five have been reduced by 50 percent. The

The global community is committed to addressing malnutrition. And yet, coverage data for high-impact interventions along the continuum of care remain scarce due to several measurement and data collection challenges. In this analysis paper, we identify 24

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17.18 recommends efforts to increase the availability of data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability and geographic location in developing countries. Surveys will continue

Current methods for measuring intervention coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (RMNCH+N) do not adequately capture the quality of services delivered. Without information on the quality of care, it is difficult to a

In this publication, Countdown to 2015 provides profiles for the countries where more than 95% of all maternal and child deaths occur. The profiles highlight how well each country is doing in increasing coverage of high-impact interventions that can save

In 'Accountability for Maternal Newborn and Child Survival; the 2013 Update', Countdown publishes the latest data for 75 countries that account for over 95% of maternal and child deaths. The 2013 Update highlights country achievements in increasing covera