NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Worldwide, our lifespans are expanding. HIV medications are more widely available than ever. And many countries are meeting their Millennium Development Goals. Ethiopia, for example, a country once near the top of the list for child mortality, reached its Millennium Development Goal 4 ahead of schedule in 2013, reducing deaths of children under five by a whopping two-thirds in less than 25 years.

But we also have a lot of challenges ahead.