Child Survival and Development Revolution
James P. Grant 1
1 Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund
As many pediatricians are aware (indeed, many of you are responsible!), the lives of significantly more than a million young children were saved last year as a direct result of specific primary health care measures singled out as the Child Survival and Development Revolution (CSDR). If fully applied on a worldwide scale, the CSDR has the potential to cut in half the toll of 40, 000 young lives lost each day to the most mundane and preventable of causes, and it could likewise halve the even larger number of youths who grow into adulthood bearing the crippling disabilities of childhood diseases.