Posts Tagged ‘maternal and child health’
Launch of the Framework on Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development
Organized by UNICEF, Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), World Bank Group, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, & the World Health Organization May 23 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CEST Ecole Hôtelière Genève (Near Vieux Bois Restaurant) Geneva, Switzerland RSVP by May 16 The Nurturing Care Framework has been developed through global…
Read MoreAddressing Critical Health System Barriers to Improve RMNCAH Services
Organized by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) February 27 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, DC MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Read MoreWebinar: It's Time to Deliver: Including Pregnant and Lactating Women in Clinical Research
Organized by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Treatment Action Group, and WHRC 2 PART WEBINAR: It’s Time to Deliver: Including Pregnant and Lactating Women in Clinical Research
Read MoreGlobal Health Council Statement on the Release of the Six-Month Review of Mexico City Policy
Washington, DC (February 8, 2018) — Today Global Health Council responds to the Department of State’s recently released 6-month review of the expansion of the Mexico City Policy (renamed to the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance). The State Department proposed the review to gauge the policy’s impact on U.S. global health programs. Specifically, this review…
Read MoreGHC NEWS FLASH: GLOBAL HEALTH ROUNDUP 7/10/2017
Join GHC at the Global Health Security Roundtable and Faith and Global Health Caucus GHC is relaunching its Global Health Security Roundtable, which will be meeting today, July 10, at 3 pm EDT in Washington, DC. Read more about the Roundtable and learn how to join the listserv. A small group of members is relaunching the Faith and Global Health Caucus.…
Read MoreWorld Health Assembly has Chance to Send a Signal to G8 on Maternal and Child Health
GENEVA — 2010 was the year when maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) finally got some of the attention it deserves. It was the signature issue of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at his G8 Summit in Muskoka where a $7.3 billion, five-year commitment was made through the Muskoka Initiative. It was a major focus of…
Read MoreKeeping Up the Fight Against Malaria
Nearly 1 million children do not reach their fifth birthday because they die from malaria each year. According to estimates from the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 1 million children do not reach their fifth birthday because they die from malaria each year. Ninety percent of these deaths occur in Africa,…
Read MoreHow Global Health Initiative Can Boost Foreign Assistance Reform
Note: This blog of the Global Health Council was originally posted to the ModernizeAid, the blog of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network as the first of a new blog series hosted by the Network. On May 5, 2009, President Obama announced a six-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI) which called for the U.S. to develop an…
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