Summary Background During the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era, many countries
in Africa achieved marked reductions in under-5 and neonatal mortality. Yet the pace of …

Summary Background Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4)
catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 …

Insufficient growth during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes and an
increased risk of death. Between 2000 and 2015, nearly all African countries demonstrated …

Social policies have great potential to improve population health and reduce health
disparities. Increasingly, those doing empirical research have sought to quantify the health …

Randomized controlled trials have established that seasonal malaria chemoprevention
(SMC) in children is a promising strategy to reduce malaria transmission in Sahelian West …

Behavioral economics hold great promise in changing patterns of behavior that influence
human health. Handwashing with soap is one such behavior that is important in reducing …

Vector-borne parasitic infectious diseases associated with poverty (referred to as vb-pIDP),
such as malaria, leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis, African trypanosomiasis, Chagas …

Background Child health interventions were drastically scaled up in the period leading up to
2015 as countries aimed at meeting the 2015 target of the Millennium Development Goals …

Background Many countries have made substantial progress in scaling-up and sustaining
malaria intervention coverage, leading to more focalized and heterogeneous transmission in …

Malaria remains a major cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization
estimated that malaria killed 429,000 people (uncertainty range: 235,000–639,000) in 2015 …