Events archives: 2008

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Of note

• Presentations: Health Care Professional Workshop - The Partnership, 22-25 Nov 2008, Dhaka Bangladesh
• Spotlight: UN Week in Focus

January

• Making Pregancy Safer: Annual Report 2006
  January 2008
• Senegal leaders discuss the Millennium Development Goals
  (MDGs) 4 & 5
  10 January 2008
• Integrated health strategies can save children's lives, says UNICEF
  22 january 2008

February

• New Norway-India programme to save mothers and children
  7 February 2008
• UNFPA Scales Up Efforts to Save Millions of Women
  14 February 2008
• Mozambique launches initiative on mother and child health
  20 February 2008
• Deliver Now for Women + Children at the Commission for the Status of Women
  28 February 2008
• Countdown to 2015: Conference 2008

March

• Proposals sought for innovative global health research
  March 2008
• Family Care International (FCI) wins 2008 UN Population Award
  5 March 2008
• Global Forum calls for immediate action to resolve health worker crisis
  6 March 2008
• Workshop on Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
  6 March 2008
• Seeking commitment from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) countries for MNCH
  6 March 2008
• International Women's Day marked by global health leaders
  8 March 2008
• UK Under-Secretary of State for International Development: "2008 is a turning point for Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5"
  11 March 2008
• H.E. President Abdoulaye Wade
  President of Senegal
  11th Summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
  Dakar, Senegal, 13 March 2008
• 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
  17 March 2008
• World Bank Institute Course to help countries achieve MDGs
  24 March - 4 April 2008
• Health Care Professional Associations Workshop, Burkina Faso
  26-29 March 2008

April

• WRAI launches global campaign ‘Deliver Now for Women and children’ in India
  11 April 2008
• Unite for Sight 5th Annual International Health and Development Conference
  12-13 April 2008
• The Lancet launches a Special Issue on Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
  11 April 2008
• Countdown to 2015 - MNCH Conference 2008
  13-18 April 2008
• Countdown to 2015 calls for parliamentarians worldwide to legislate and budget for mothers and children
  15 April 2008
• 2008 Countdown Report launched
  16 April 2008
• Countdown starts to count
• G8 action urged to avert six million mother and child deaths every year
  19 April 2008
• Countdown commitment to act
  19 April 2008
• Statement of commitment concerning maternal, newborn and child survival by participants in the Countdown to 2015 Conference, Cape Town, 17-19 April 2008
• Heads of state launch Deliver Now for Women + Children in Tanzania
  22 April 2008

May

• International Day of the Midwife
  05 May 2008
• Inequalities in Health and Health Care
  5-9 May 2008
• The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Health and Development of Infants and Children
  5 May 2008
• WHO Director General hails progress in child survival, urges accelerated action for maternal, newborn health
  19 May 2008

June

• International Confederation of Midwives Triennial Congress
  1-5 June 2008
• Bangladesh Public health Conference 2008
  13-14 June 2008
• World Rotarians rise to the challenge—reducing child mortality
  17 June 2008
• Christie's "Art for Health" Auction helps save mother and child lives
  18 June 2006
• Reproductive Health in Emergencies Conference, Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda
  18-20 June 2008
• Health Systems, Health and Wealth for 21st Century Europe
  25-27 June 2008
• Third Orientation Workshop on "Maternal and Newborn Health Programming"
  30 June-4 July 2008
• Global health leaders call on G8 Summit to commit long-term predictable funding for health systems
  9 June 2008

July

• World Population Day
  11 July 2008
• Countdown Core Group meets
  28-29 July 2008
• Programme for Global Paediatric Research Award For Outstanding Contributions to Global Child Health
  30 July - 7 November 2008

August

• World Breastfeeding Week
  1-7 August 2008
• XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City
  3-8 August 2008
• Public Mobilization Launch of Deliver Now - Brazil
  15–16 August 2008
• Workshop: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS
  25 August 2008

September

• Post-Graduate Fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - IHME
  1 September 2008
• OECD/DAC 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
  2-4 September 2008
• Call for Research Proposals: Incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers
  12 September 2008
• Séminaire de renforcement des capacités des ONG locales
  15-17 septembre 2008
• High Level LAC Launch Deliver Now for Women and Children - Chile
  19 September 2008
• Week of United Nations High-level and Partner Side-event meetings
  22-26 September 2008
• UN Side-events to Africa's Development Needs
  22 September 2008
• UN High-Level Meeting on Africa's Development Needs
  22 September 2008
• United Nations General Assembly
  23 September 2008
• Clinton Global Initiative: Annual Meeting
  24-26 September 2008
• Side-event to the High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals
  24 September 2008
• UN High-level Event on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
  25 September 2008
• UN partner Side-event on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 (child health) and 5 (maternal health)
  25 September 2008, New York, USA
• UN-backed scheme aims to reduce maternal mortality through innovative financing for health systems
  25 September 2008
• UN Side-event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
  25 September 2008
• High-level event on the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: Photo gallery
  25 September 2008

October

• 119th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
  13-15 October 2008, Geneva
• Conference: Taking Action for the World's Poor and Hungry People
  17-19 Oct 2008, Beijing, China
• BBC World health series feature maternal and child survival issues
  25 October and 8 November 2008
• Get ready to stand up and take action for the MDGs
  17-19 October 2008

November

• Collaborative networks across organizational boundaries: The edge of network collaboration
  17 November 2008
• The Role of Health Care Professionals in Achieving MDGs 4 and 5, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  22-25 November 2008
• “ICPD at 15: Progress and Prospects”
  24-25 November 2008, Kampala, Uganda
• Boudh: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  25 Nov 2008
• Parliamentarians take action for maternal and newborn health
  26-28 November 2008
• Nuapada: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  29 Nov 2008
• BBC World Health Debate
• 2008 International Stillbirth Conference
  5-7 November 2008
• "Research for health" Global Ministerial Forum begins on Monday
  17-19 November 2008
• International day for the elimination of violence against women
  25 November 2008
• Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus
  29 November-2 December 2008
• Closing the Gap in a Generation Conference: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
  6 – 7 November, 2008
• Board meeting: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
  10-11 November 2008
• International Parliamentary Conference
  17-21 November 2008
• Universal Children's Day
  20 November 2008

December

• Fourth Orientation Workshop on Maternal and Newborn Health Programming
  1 to 5 December 2008
• Deliver Now India public hearings: Full calendar
  November - December 2008
• Workshops on prenatal counselling and antenatal care
  3 December 2008
• International Conference on Scaling Up: An Essential Strategy to Attaining Good Health for All
  3-6 December 2008
• Conference: Second Congress of Asia-Pacific Council on Contraception (APCOC)
  4-6 Dec 2008, Macau, China
• Angul: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  9 Dec 2008
• Conference : Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: Meeting the Millenium Development Goals
  10-14 Dec 2008, Wilton Park, UK. Save the Children
• Jharsuguda: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  11 Dec 2008
• Sonepur: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  14 Dec 2008
• Dhenkanal: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  15 Dec 2008
• Mayaurbhanj: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  17 Dec 2008
• Sundargarh: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  18 Dec 2008
• Update for NGOs on The Partnership
  18 Dec 2008 Washington D.C
• Khurda: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  19 Dec 2008
• Phulbani: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  21 Dec 2008
• Koraput: Deliver Now India - Public hearing
  29 Dec 2008