ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Improving Child Survival Through Environmental and Nutritional Interventions The Importance of Targeting Interventions Toward the Poor

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENTGoals (MDGs) were estab-lished in 2000 in a declarationadopted unanimously by the member countries of the United Na-tions to focus resources and efforts to-ward the critical global poverty, health, and sustainability problem