Measuring child survival for the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: what have we learned and what more is needed to evaluate the Sustainable Development Goals?Measuring child survival for the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: what have we learned and what more is needed to evaluate the Sustainable Development Goals

Funding for the parent study was provided by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa. Support for data management came from the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (grant UL1 TR000445 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health). At the time of the study, Dr. Kipp was a Scholar with the HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program (HA-STTP), at the University of California, Los Angeles; supported through an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (R25 DA035692). Dr. Vermund's participation was supported, in part, by NIH grant P30AI110527, the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Brault is currently supported by grant number K12HS023000 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.