In partnership with organizations which work to improve nutrition for children in the poorest countries, we have seen some exciting achievements. Though many challenges remain, these events (and many others over the course of the year) reaffirm our strategic direction to focus our investments on healthy growth, breastfeeding and complementary feeding, and control of selected micronutrient deficiencies.

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Chinese innovation has much to offer African countries. And there are immense opportunities for China and Africa to partner on urgent health and development issues, from improving access to immunization to fighting HIV/AIDS and neglected infectious diseases. This kind of cooperation between developing countries and emerging economies is incredibly important, particularly as traditional sources of assistance are coming under pressure.

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Effective interventions could prevent many deaths, but these interventions are not reaching all those who need them. Unless we know where those interventions are missing, we can’t reach those women and children who are most in need.

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The Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) team has identified some important lessons from analyses of global and national trends in mortality reduction, cause specific mortality and intervention coverage, and from experience in program implementation. Based on this learning, we have adjusted our MNCH strategy to keep the focus of our investments on the most critical conditions and issues.

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This year’s six-part Family Health Check Up 2013 blog series is intended to present the evolution of our thinking leading to adjustments to our strategy, highlight lessons learned from our investments last year, and give some insight into plans for the coming year in pursuing our vision collaboratively across Family Health.

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