For the first time, there is a mechanism to hold countries, partners, ourselves and donors accountable for the lives of children.

If we use these data, we can save 6 million children a year and the cost is $25 per child, per year for the whole set of interventions. We can afford this. We can do this.

What we plan to do is to take each of those affordable and effective interventions and every two years monitor how many kids are getting them. If the numbers don't go up. We will ask why.

I just try to get something going. Most of the time it works.

He's really stepped up his performance. He'll just have to take it one match at a time.

Our report identifies for the first time the severe and previously hidden global toll of birth defects. This is a serious, vastly unappreciated and under-funded public health problem.