The Coalition remains united in efforts to support the achievement of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 of reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. In 2010, Coalition member organizations urged their governments to support a World Health Assembly resolution stating that intensified efforts to address the prevention and treatment of pneumonia are vital to reducing child mortality and achieving MDG 4, and requiring countries to report back annually on progress controlling childhood pneumonia. The resolution passed and was adopted by all World Health Organization Member States. Building on that important international achievement, in 2011, Coalition members worked to ensure that governments.
