Getting it right for children: a review of UNICEF joint health and nutrition strategy for 2006–15

First, the joining of health and nutrition into a unified movement rises above disciplinary infighting to recognise essential synergies-synergies between under-nutrition and infections that account for over half the deaths in children aged younger than 5 years,6 and potential synergies in prevention and treatment that make simple interventions to improve child nutrition the most cost-effective option for poor governments seeking to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.7 Second, the strategy is courageous in setting clear priorities, and by implication, making choices about what UNICEF will not be doing in the future.