"The report highlights the need to position child survival at the heart of Africa’s development and human rights agenda. It begins by examining the state of child survival and progress towards the health-related MDGs for children and mothers in each of the continent’s five main subregions: Eastern, Central, North, Southern and West Africa.The report outlines five broad priorities that are required to accelerate progress and then seeks to examine each of these issues in depth, illustrating them with side panels that provide examples from the African experience."