Sub-Saharan Africa's mothers, newborns, and children: how many lives could be saved with targeted health interventions?

This paper estimates the lives that could be saved by scaling up proven health interventions in a variety of health systems categorized by skilled birth attendance categories to maximize progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. It describes the two methods that were employed for this analysis including country information intervention selection modeling and costing and shares the results and implications.