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Documents on policy & strategy

Key document

• Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people
  This report provides evidence-based recommendations for policy-makers, programme managers and researchers to guide efforts towards decreasing prevalence and vulnerability; and increasing access to information, skills and services.

2011

• District planning tool for maternal and newborn health strategy implementation

2010

• PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015
  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
• Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health

2009

• Annual report 2008
• Counselling for maternal and newborn health care
  A handbook for building skills
• Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
• Mainstreaming adolescent pregnancy in the work of the World Health Organization
  Report of the Expert Group meeting
• Managing programmes to improve child health
  Introduction, planning implementation, managing implementation, workbook, facilitator guide
• Parliamentarians take action for maternal and newborn health: report on meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, 26-28 November 2008

2008

• Child and adolescent health and development: progress report 2006-2007
• MPS Notes: adolescent pregnancy
  Volume 1, No.1
• Technical consultation on the integration of HIV interventions into maternal, newborn and child health services

2007

• CAH progress report 2006
• Meeting of development partners report - Stockholm
  Maternal and newborn health: with a focus on country implementation, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-22 June 2006
• Meeting of women parliamentarians report
  Maternal and newborn health and survival, London, United Kingdom, 13-14 March 2007
• Note for the record report - New York
  United Nations partners meeting on maternal health, New York, 13 September 2006
• WHO policy brief for Global Fund proposal development on malaria in pregnancy
• WHO recommended interventions for improving maternal and newborn health
  Integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth

2006

• Annual Report 2005
  WHO Department of Making Pregnancy Safer
• CAH progress report 2004-2005
• Impact on economic growth of investing in maternal–newborn health
• Making a difference in countries: Strategic approach to improving maternal and newborn survival and health
  Ensuring skilled care for every birth
• The costs of maternal–newborn illness and mortality
• The effect of maternal–newborn ill-health on households
  Economic vulnerability and social implications

2005

• Promoting the health of mothers and newborns during birth and the postnatal period
  Report of the collaborative Safe Motherhood pre-congress workshop, International Confederation of Midwives, Brisbane, Australia, 21-23 July 2005
• Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing
• The World Health Report 2005
  Make every mother and child count

2004

• CAH progress report 2002-2003
• Making pregnancy safer: The critical role of the skilled attendant
  A joint statement by WHO, ICM and FIGO

2003

• Antenatal care in developing countries
  Promises, achievements and missed opportunities: an analysis of trends, levels and differentials, 1990-2001
• Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation, and summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Strategic directions for improving the health and development of children and adolescents

2002

• Global action for skilled attendants for pregnant women

2001

• CAH progress report 2000-2001

1990-1999

• Action for adolescent health: Towards a common agenda
  Recommendations from a joint study group
• Mother-Baby Package: Implementing safe motherhood in countries