The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean held a regional IMCI coordinators' meeting in Amman, Jordan, from 2 to 6 September 2007. The main purpose of the meeting was to review progress of implementation of the Integrated Management of Child Health (IMCI) strategy since it was introduced in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in 1996 and set the way forward. More specifically, the objectives of the meeting were to:

• discuss progress of scaling up the IMCI strategy to reach the targets of Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing child mortality 
• discuss mechanisms for scaling up IMCI to increase IMCI coverage
• update countries on new areas of child health within the IMCI context, particularly neonatal health; and to review progress of the IMCI community component.

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Report on the regional IMCI coordinators' meeting, Amman, Jordan, 2–6 September 2007