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Articles, videos, podcasts and reports about Millennium Development Goal 4

A 2008 national survey revealed that one in five Filipino children under the age of 5 was underweight and almost a third were stunted. The recent energy, food and financial crises have added to the challenge set by the government of reducing the prevalence of underweight to 17.25% by 2015. The Joint Programme supported these efforts, concentrating on improving exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in children 0-24 months.

Two-week national polio and measles campaign in Bangladesh which targeted about 20 million children under five. In order to ensure widespread participation, community health promoters made loudspeaker announcements and door-to-door visits to families like Johura's in the week prior to the campaign. The messages advised families about the importance of immunization.

This  project's goal in India was to lower that rate of anaemia in adolescent girls by providing regular iron and folic acid supplements. To do that, they engaged multiple government departments and community and school leaders. 

This video shows a snapshot of what has been achieved so far for each Millennium Development Goal and what still needs to be done before 2015. Move through the video to find statistics for individual Millennium Development Goal.

Scroll to the bottom of the paged to find the MDG Progress Chart 2014 which presents an assessment of the regional progress towards selected key targets relating to each Goal as of June 2014.