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• High-level UN Commission established to track results and resources for women’s + children’s health
  16 DECEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK -- The United Nations is establishing a high-level commission charged with developing an accountability framework that will link resources committed to women's and children's health with the results they are intended to achieve.
• Progress on sanitation and drinking-water: 2010 Update
  World Health Organization/UNICEF (2010)
• CHNRI: International Essay Contest 2009
  11 DECEMBER 2009 : Last date for acceptance of electronic applications
• UNFPA: Adding it Up: The costs and benefits of investing in family planning and maternal health
  3 DECEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK– Maternal deaths in developing countries could be slashed by 70% and newborn deaths cut nearly in half if the world doubled investment in family planning and pregnancy-related care, shows a new report by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
• WHO: Maternal + Newborn Orientation Workshop
  7-9 December 2009 | Geneva - The Workshop is part of a series of capacity-building workshops organized by the Department of Making Pregnancy Safer on a regular basis
• World YWCA: Women, HIV and Rights
  1 DECEMBER 2009 - The latest research on women's health indicates that lack of contraception and unsafe sex are the crucial risk factors for death and disability in women of reproductive age (15 - 49 years old).
• UNAIDS/WHO : Eight-year trend shows new HIV infections down by 17%—most progress seen in sub-Saharan Africa
  24 NOVEMBER 2009 | GENEVA/SHANGHAI – According to new data in the 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years.
• CIDA : Canada’s Development Agency unveils children and youth strategy and aid
  20 NOVEMBER 2009 | Toronto, Canada - The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation, has unveiled the Canadian International Development Agency’s Children and Youth Strategy.
• WHO/UNICEF : Largest-ever Yellow Fever vaccination campaign targets nearly 12 million people
  17 NOVEMBER 2009 | GENEVA/NEW YORK - The largest-ever yellow fever mass vaccination campaign is taking place across three African countries.
• 34 MILLION FRIENDS : Women's health equals global health: A radical proposal
  7 NOVEMBER 2009 - What follows is a radical proposal from a grassroots activist who wants to see a whole new framework for global health.
• WHO/UNICEF : New action plan to tackle pneumonia
  2 NOVEMBER 2009 | GENEVA/NEW YORK - A comprehensive action plan that can save up to 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015 has been launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
• WHO/UNICEF/The World Bank : Global health experts report childhood vaccines at all-time high, but no equity
  OCTOBER 2009 | WASHINGTON DC - Reversing a downward trend, immunization rates are now at their highest ever and vaccine development worldwide is booming, according to a new assessment released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the World Bank.
• STAND UP - END POVERTY CAMPAIGN
  16-18 OCTOBER 2009 - Citizens attempt to break another Guinness World Record by showing their governments they won't stand for broken promises to world's poorest.
• UNICEF and WHO launch strategy to prevent and treat diarrhoea
  14 OCTOBER 2009 - Global campaigns to fight diarrhoea must be re-energized to prevent the deaths of millions in the developing world, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) said as they released a new report on the disease.
• LSHTM launches MARCH, the new Centre for Maternal, Reproductive + Child Health
  17 SEPTEMBER 2009 | LONDON - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has launch a new initiative – the MARCH Centre – which brings together experts in all aspects of the health of pregnant and nursing women and their babies.
• PATH : Re-newsed - Global Call to Action on Diarrheal Disease
  14 SEPTEMBER 2009 - This past May, PATH and partners Water Advocates and the US Coalition for Child Survival launched a Call to Action to raise awareness about the neglected priority of addressing diarrheal disease.
• ONE : One Campaign petitions G-20 world leaders to meet in Africa
  11 SEPTEMBER 2009 - Presidents and prime ministers are headed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September week for the G20 Summit—the latest in a series of high-level talks on the global economy, covering everything from international trade to the rules governing financial markets.
• Latin countries and Chile’s leader renew commitment to saving lives
• UNFPA/AFPPD: Getting the economics right
  13 AUGUST | BALI, INDONESIA - “Do Your Part, invest in women and children to invest in your health system” is the main message from The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health’s (PMNCH) Dr Flavia Bustreo to 80 parliamentarians, journalists, human rights experts gathered from 13-15 August 2009 at a regional consultation in Bali, Indonesia
• UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL recognises maternal mortality as human rights concern
  17 JUNE 2009 | Geneva - The Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution on ‘Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights’ in which governments express grave concern for high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, and acknowledge that this is a human rights issue.
• CANADA: Canada's international leaders on maternal mortality congratulate Canadian Government
  9 JUNE 2009 | OTTAWA - Today in Parliament, an all-party resolution was unanimously passed renewing Canada's commitment to reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality both at home and abroad.
• ITALY: Italian Parliament commits to increase investment in maternal and newborn health
  9 JUNE 2009 | ROME - The Italian Parliament has unanimously adopted a parliamentary resolution to save the lives of mothers and children in the countries with highest burden.
• CANADA: Resolution recommits Canada to support maternal and newborn initiatives lauded by Canada's maternal expert leaders
  4 JUNE 2009| OTTAWA - In Canada, Parliament unanimously passed an all-party resolution stating its commitment to reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality at home and abroad and support the work of Canadian leaders to achieve this goal.
• WHO: Influenza pandemic alert raised to level 6
  11 JUNE | GENEVA - In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus. This particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans
• WHO: Global use of rotavirus vaccines recommended
  5 JUNE 2009 | GENEVA - Rotavirus vaccination should be included in all national immunization programmes to protect children from a virus that kills more than 500 000 children every year, an advisory group of experts has recommended.
• High Level Taskforce on International Innovative Financing for Health Systems: Report released
  29 MAY 2009 | PARIS - The report of the Taskforce on International Innovative Financing for Health Systems, co-chaired by Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister and Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, was completed on 29 May at the third Taskforce meeting held in Paris.
• WHO: Progress on health-related MDGs mixed
  21 MAY 2009 | GENEVA - Deaths of children aged under five years have dropped by 27% globally since 1990, according to the latest WHO estimates.
• LSHTM & JHPIEGO: Global health awards honour Partnership member
  The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and JHPIEGO, have won awards.
• PATH/WATER AID: Two new reports highlight stalled progress against diarrheal disease
  12 MAY 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC - Two new reports released today show that the international aid community and developing-country governments are not responding to clear evidence on child mortality by targeting resources where the disease burden is greatest.
• IHP + CIVIL SOCIETY CONSULTATIVE GROUP: Call for nominations
  The IHP+ Civil Society Consultative Group is being established to serve as a platform for the engagement of the broad range of CS constituencies in Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)
• USA: US President Obama announces global health effort
  5 MAY 2009 | WASHINGTON DC - The White House has announced that it is seeking $63 billion for a six-year drive to fight illness and disease around the world.
• AUSTRALIA: Australian Parliamentary Secretary calls for urgent investment in child and maternal health
  3 MAY 2009 - The global economic crisis is putting the health of women and children in the Asia-Pacific region at greater risk, Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said at the report launch on maternal and child health in the region
• PATH/US COALITION FOR CHILD SURVIVAL: Call to action to end deaths from diarrhea
  APRIL 2009 - PATH and the US Coalition for Child Survival are coordinating an initiative to tackle diarrheal disease by inviting leaders in the fields of health, water and sanitation, development and relief, and environmental sectors to sign on to a call to action on diarrheal disease.
• WHO spearheads vaccination awareness weeks
  20-26 APRIL 2009 - This week, two regions - Americas and Europe - are uniting to vaccinate millions of children, adults and seniors.
• SAVE THE CHILDREN : Pneumonia is world's most neglected disease, kills more than 2 million children annually
  7 APRIL 2009 | BALTIMORE, MD - Child health groups united with Save the Children Ambassadors Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Laurie today to establish an annual World Pneumonia Day on 2 November 2009
• WORLD BANK asks G-20 to restore confidence + act for world's poor
  31 MARCH 2009 | LONDON - World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said there would be a sharp slowdown in economic growth in the developing world this year and the Group of 20 must not shrink from combining ideas and actions to restore confidence in the world economy.
• PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
  27 MARCH 2009 HOUSTON TEXAS - "...The overarching mission of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the cause of reproductive freedom that you continue to advance today is as relevant in our world now as it was a hundred years ago."
• UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN/WOMEN'S ENEWS: Experts to discuss maternal health in live onlinechat 25 March 2009
  25 MARCH 2009 - Partnership between UN Millennium Campaign and Women’s eNews aims to raise awareness of a main killer of young women in developing countries, despite promises by world leaders to take urgent action to end this crisis.
• WRA: "Million Mums" campaign launched on UK Mothers Day
  22 MARCH | LONDON - The White Ribbon Alliance is launching an exciting new public awareness campaign called "Million Mums" to campaign for healthcare for pregnant women worldwide and speak out against needless maternal mortality.
• UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: Governments declare maternal mortality a human rights violation
  16 MARCH 2009 | GENEVA - In a joint statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council, 83 Governments reaffirmed their commitment to addressing maternal mortality as a human rights issue.
• TASK FORCE ON INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS receives two Working Group Reports
  13 MARCH 2009 | LONDON UK - More mothers and children will die of preventable diseases this year than in 2008 as the financial crisis derails improvements that poorer countries are making in their healthcare systems.
• WRA: New leadership group announced to spearhead drive against maternal mortality
  12 MARCH 2009 | LONDON - A new international leadership group to tackle Maternal Mortality was launched today to help lead the global fight against maternal mortality.
• UNPA: US resumption of funding to boost women’s health and rights
  11 MARCH 2009 | NEW YORK NY - President Barack Obama's action to pave the way for the release of United States funding for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, reminds the world of his commitment to women’s health, rights and equality, according to UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid.
• WHO promotes research to avert diarrhoea deaths
  10 MARCH 2009 | GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified research priorities to reduce global mortality for childhood diarrhoea, which kills nearly two million children every year.
• WHO: Women and men to unite to end violence against women
  6 MARCH 2009 | GENEVA - In a statement to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, the World Health Organization Director-General Dr Margaret Chan has signalled the need for men and women to unite to end violence against women and girls and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
• ENGENDERHEALTH announces the director of the Maternal Health Task Force
  27 FEBRUARY 2009 | NEW YORK – EngenderHealth announced today that Ann K. Blanc, Ph.D., will serve as the Director of the Maternal Health Task Force, a new EngenderHealth project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• HIGH LEVEL TASKFORCE ON INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS: Civil Society Forum
  5 MARCH 2009 | LONDON UK - Representatives of the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems held a first consultation meeting with civil society actors on 5 March 2009 in London.
• WHO: Teenage pregnancies cause many health, social problems
  13 FEBRUARY 2009 | GENEVA - About 16 million teenage girls become mothers every year.
• INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (IRH): 2009 News
  The latest issue of the USAID/India newsletter highlights the commitment of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to scale up the SDM in the state of Jharkhand in India.
• WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE & GOVERNMENT OF INDIA: Launch of Deliver Now Media campaign in Orissa, India
  White Ribbon Alliance India and the National Rural Health Mission, have jointly launched a media campaign that supports the advocacy and communications campaign of Deliver Now for Women + Children India, first launched in India in April 2008, with activities carried out by White Ribbon Alliance India.
• SAVE THE CHILDREN: Newborn research shares top honor from The Lancet
  5 FEBRUARY 2009 | WASHINGTON DC - The newborn study article Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trialy received the Lancet Paper of the Year award on 24 January.
• WHO & WORLD BANK warn against health spending cuts
  5 FEBRUARY 2009 | GENEVA - The World Bank and World Health Organization on Thursday warned donors and developing countries that cuts in health spending in the financial crisis could cost lives and roll back progress on healthcare.
• GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL: US advocates call on President Obama to champion family health
  30 JANUARY | GENEVA - With President Barack Obama now in the White House, U.S. health advocates are wasting no time in urging his new administration to strengthen its commitment to global family health.
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• ITALY: Italian women Parliamentarians commit to maternal, newborn & child health
  23 JANUARY 2009 | GENEVA - A group of ten women Parliamentarians from Italy participated in the first meeting on sexual and reproductive health - critical issues in maternal, newborn & child health.
• ITALIA: Report incontro 23 Gennaio 2009 sulla salute materno infantile a Ginevra in collaborazione con OMS e con Parlamentari O.N.Da
  23 JANUARY 2009 | GENEVA - A group of ten women Parliamentarians from Italy participated in the first meeting on sexual and reproductive health - critical issues in maternal, newborn & child health.
• UNFPA welcomes restoration of U.S. funding
  23 JANUARY 2009 | NEW YORK USA - UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, applauds today's statement from United States President Barack Obama restoring U.S. funding for UNFPA's operations.
• ROTARY, GATES, UK & GERMANY: Global health community commits over $630 million for polio eradication
  21 JANUARY 2009 | San Diego USA - Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the British and German governments today committed more than $630 million in new funds to fight polio, a disease that threatens children everywhere.
• WHO, UNICEF, GATES FOUNDATION: Tackle critical lack of "child size" medicines
  21 JANUARY 2009 | GENEVA - WHO has received a US$ 9.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to work with UNICEF to conduct crucial research in children’s medicines, with the aim of increasing the number of 'child size' medicines designed and formulated specifically for children.
• SAVE THE CHILDREN UK: response to UNICEF report
  15 JANUARY 2009 - David Mepham, Save the Children’s director of policy, said: “Every minute a mother dies in child birth or from pregnancy-related complications and the vast majority of these deaths are preventable."
• UNFPA: welcomes new UNICEF report
  15 JANUARY 2009 | NEW YORK NY - Every minute somewhere in the world a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth, and the women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth than those in developed countries.
• UNICEF: Boost poor nations’ health systems to improve maternal and newborn health
  15 JANUARY 2009 | GENEVA - Poor nations’ health systems must be boosted to improve maternal and newborn health, Unicef says.
• State of the World Children 2009
  15 JANUARY 2009 | JOHANESBURG/NEW YORK/GENEVA - Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, according to UNICEF’s latest State of the World’s Children report.
• UNFPA: New Plan to Save Women's Lives in Laos
  5 JANUARY 2009 | PAKSE (Lao PDR) - Maternal health improvements are badly needed in Lao PDR, which has one of the highest rates of maternal death in Southeast Asia, and where more than 700 women every year die in pregnancy or childbirth.