WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 
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Roughly 22 million children in developing countries do not receive life-saving vaccines that parents in wealthy nations take for granted. PMNCH member GAVI Alliance works to redress this inequity. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Every Newborn: An action plan to end preventable deaths
Working together to accelerate progress for newborn survival and better health for women and children (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Global newborn action
15-18 APRIL 2013 | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Participants from more than 50 countries came together to focus on accelerating the scale-up of high-impact interventions to address the three leading causes of newborn mortality: prematurity, intrapartum-related complications and infections. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Global newborn action
15-18 APRIL 2013 | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Researchers, policy-makers, health professionals and advocates from more than 50 countries came together to focus on accelerating the scale-up of high-impact interventions to address the three leading causes of newborn mortality: prematurity, intrapartum-related complications (“birth asphyxia”) and infections. These three preventable and treatable conditions are responsible for four out of five newborn deaths worldwide. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Call for applications: Join a FP2020 Working Group
Family Planning 2020 is seeking applications from individuals interested in participating in a FP2020 Working Group or a FP2020 Consultative Network to the Working Groups. All FP2020 Working Groups will consist of two co-leads and a core membership of 10 to 20 individuals representing a wide range of stakeholders and expertise. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
UNICEF: Stunting in children can be defeated
15 APRIL 2013 | DUBLIN – A new UNICEF report offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. The report shows that accelerated progress is both possible and necessary. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Parents take to the stage to speak out on newborn survival
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Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Human rights for women's and children's health: examining the evidence
7 March 2013 | GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — A lunch-time event to discuss a study looking to find evidence that human rights-based approaches have helped to improve women’s and children’s health was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This event, organized by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the missions of the Governments of Brazil and Nepal, was a side event to the twenty-second session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Call for Abstracts – International Conference on Family Planning, 2013
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Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 4, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
EuWHO youth initiative for global health equity
04 APRIL 2013 - EuWHO: WHO Simulation Youth Initiative has approved a resolution calling for the right to education, and increased empowerment and equity as keys to improving the health of all—especially that of girls and women. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 4, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
East African Community launches Open Health Initiative
27-29 MARCH 2013 | KIGALI, RWANDA — The East African Community is seeking to deliver improved reproductive, maternal and child health with a new $5-million program to boost progress in the five EAC partner states: the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Republic of Uganda. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 27, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Graça Machel to chair PMNCH board
8 APRIL 2013 | GENEVA – The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health is delighted to welcome Graça Machel as the incoming Chair of the PMNCH board. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Meet on sidelines of High Level Panel of Eminent Persons
24-26 MARCH 2013 BALI - Over 200 representatives of the global development community have gathered in Bali, on the sidelines of the final meeting of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post 2015 Development Agenda to debate key development priorities to follow the United Nations present Millennium Development Goals. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
2013 IWG mHealth catalytic grant competition
MARCH 2013 - The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) has made a US$9.9 million commitment to support the use of innovative mobile technologies to improve women’s and children's health. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Experts meet on value for money of health investments in Africa
18-21 MARCH 2013 | HAMMAMET, TUNISIA – The African Development Bank, in collaboration with partners of the Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) mechanism has convened an expert meeting on capacity building for the implementation of the Tunis Declaration on value for money, sustainability and accountability in the health sector in Africa. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
