The State of Latin American and Caribbean Children 2008 report: Child Survival

The report outlines broad priorities that are required to accelerate progress on child and maternal health in general,and to reduce inequality in health-care provision and health outcomes in particular. Although the region is well on track to meet Millennium Development Goal 4, which seeks to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two thirds between 1990 and 2006, and other health-related MDGs, it is clear that many communities and groups – differentiated by income, ethnicity, gender and geographic location in particular – are at risk of remaining excluded from essential quality primary healthcare services.