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The Lancet 2020 Campaign 1 The LancetJoin the Lancet 2020 Campaign on child and adolescent health. Lancet. 2020; 395: 89 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (6) Google Scholar on child and adolescent health is a welcome call for a renewed focus on children. With less than a decade remaining to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the campaign is a timely reminder about an unfinished agenda, reiterating the centrality of child survival and wellbeing in global development. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic bring more urgency to the need for increased attention to children. Although COVID-19 is usually mild in children, health-service disruptions and other indirect effects of the pandemic response are having devastating impacts on the wellbeing of pregnant women, children, and other vulnerable individuals. 2 Roberton T Carter ED Chou VB et al. Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study. Lancet Glob Health. 2020; 8: e901-e908 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (623) Google Scholar , 3 The WHO–UNICEF–Lancet CommissionersAfter COVID-19, a future for the world's children?. Lancet. 2020; 396: 298-300 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (39) Google Scholar There have, for example, been reports of declines in institutional deliveries and increases in stillbirths and neonatal deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in some Asian and European populations. 4 Ashish KC Gurung R Kinney MV et al. Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study. Lancet Glob Health. 2020; (published online Aug 10.)https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30345-4 Google Scholar , 5 Khalil A von Dadelszen P Draycott T Ugwumadu A O'Brien P Magee L Change in the incidence of stillbirth and preterm delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA. 2020; (published online July 10.)https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.12746 Crossref PubMed Scopus (247) Google Scholar
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