World Health Organization
منظمة الصحة العالمية
Organisation mondiale de la Santé

About the child health and development programme

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The child health and development programme envisions a world in which all children enjoy the highest attainable standard of health, as their fundamental right, growing and developing to their full potential.

The programme aims at reducing deaths and illness in children under the age of five in countries of the Region and promoting their growth and development. This objective includes providing technical support to countries to achieve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two thirds by 2015 compared with the 1990 level.

The regional child health and development programme: