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A Promise Renewed promotes two goals. The first is to keep the promise of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 — to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015 — and by accelerating maternal survival, addressed in MDG 5. The second goal is to keep moving forward, beyond 2015, until no child or mother dies from preventable causes. A modelling exercise presented at the Child Survival Call to Action in June 2012 demonstrated that countries can lower their national under-five mortality rates to 20 or fewer deaths per 1,000 live births by 2035. Achieving 20 by 2035 represents an important milestone towards the ultimate goal of ending preventable child deaths.