Posts Tagged ‘maternal and child health’
World 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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