MCA progress report 2014-2015 WHO's Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health

The 2014–15 biennium that celebrated the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was a landmark period during which the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA) targeted accelerated action in particular towards MDGs 4 and 5. Major achievements include the global expansion of the Every Newborn Action Plan and the Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea, continuous progress on implementing integrated community case management and integrated management of childhood illness, a wide-ranging research agenda that strengthened the evidence base to guide global policy, multi-country work on quality of care and respect to women during childbirth, evidence briefs for policymakers, updated estimates of newborn and child mortality rates, work on HIV prevention and care, including preventing mother-to-child transmission and behaviour change, and technical support to global policy-making, to regions and to countries.