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The world has made remarkable progress in the fight to end child mortality in recent years. Since 1990, we have almost halved the number of children who die every year before the age of five – from 12.6 million to 6.6 million.

Achieving Every Newborn targets through improving care around the time of birth could have a phenomenal impact with a triple return on investment – preventing maternal deaths, newborn deaths and stillbirths.

Each day, an estimated 800 mothers and 18,000 young children die from largely preventable causes.

By just about any measure and standard 2014 was a tough year for children around the world. Innocent children were caught in the crossfire of conflict in places like Syria and iraq. they struggled to survive as newborn babies in Nigeria. children entered school ill prepared to learn and succeed in Brazil. they left home and crossed borders to seek protection from violence in the united States and across Europe. and they felt the fear and loss of Ebola throughout parts of West Africa.