Progress in health-related Millennium Development Goals
WHO's World health statistics 2010 and Trends in maternal mortality, highlighted progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Since 1990:
- deaths of young children have decreased by one third;
- the number of women dying due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth has decreased by 34%.
But such gains are precarious and the world needs strong leadership to consolidate successes and meet the goals by the 2015 deadline.