... is the realization that you cannot start saving the most vul-nerable infants and children without first ensuring the health of their mothers. The reason is simple: It is the mothers who do the ... January2008, the Ministry of Health, together with the World HealthOrganization, the United Nations Population Fund andUNICEF, launched the Mother and Child Survival Campaign. The first phase of the ... occur in the first 28days of life. Three quarters of neonatal deaths take place in the first seven days, the early neonatalperiod; most of these are also preventable.22 THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S...