Thirty-year setback means more will die
Goal 4: Child mortality: Insufficient funding and a lack of coordination has thrown efforts to reduce child mortality off track, resulting in more preventable deaths
The Guardian/ Alison Benjamin/ 23 Sept 2008 - Under-five mortality has fallen below 10 million to 9.7 million, yet millennium development goal 4 - to reduce it to fewer than five million deaths annually by 2015 - is so off track that, at the current rate of reduction, the target will not be met until 2045, 30 years past the deadline.