RMNCH News 2013

Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health

April

• Sixth Conference of AU Ministers of Health
  22-26 APRIL 2013 | ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
• Call for nominations: Ten vacancies on GAVI CSO Constituency Steering Committee
  Deadline for nominations: 1 May 2013
• Call for applications: Join a FP2020 Working Group
  Deadline for submissions: 30 APRIL 2013
• Parents take to the stage to speak out on newborn survival
• UNICEF: Stunting in children can be defeated
  Globally one in four of all children under five is stunted
• Ending preventable deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
• EuWHO youth initiative for global health equity
  Movement calls for education, empowerment and equity
• Call for Abstracts – International Conference on Family Planning, 2013
  Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2013

March

• East African Community launches Open Health Initiative
  PMNCH supports EAC partner states in efforts to jumpstart progress on women’s and children’s health
• IPU advances accountability for women’s and children’s health
  26 MARCH 2013 | QUITO, ECUADOR
• Experts meet on value for money of health investments in Africa
  18-21 MARCH 2013 | HAMMAMET, TUNISIA
• 2013 IWG mHealth catalytic grant competition
• RFA: Children's Prize seeks innovative solutions to under-5 mortality
• RFA: USAID project seeking case studies on interventions to improve equity in MNCH
• UN CSW57
  15 MARCH 2013 | NEW YORK
• Human rights for women's and children's health: examining the evidence
  7 MARCH 2013 | GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

February

• Family Care International (FCI) receives MacArthur Foundation award
• MamaYe campaign is launched in several African countries to improve survival
• PATH seeks collaborators for launch of global action plan on pneumonia and diarrhoea
• Women Deliver Top 25 social enterprises for women and children
• Paediatric Economic Database Evaluation (PEDE) Website
• GAPPS produces stillbirth video and FB campaign: Born in Silence
• IRH: Meeting the needs of adolescents with the CycleSmart Kit
• African civil society calls for unified resource mobilization for health
  20 FEBRUARY 2013 | GENEVA
• PUB : Malaria in Pregnancy: Intermittent Preventive Treatment
• Publication: Save the Children’s ‘Superfood for Babies'
• Health and the next global development agenda
• Mother and Child Health and Education Trust: HealthPhone brings knowledge to villages
• Conference: Call to Action - Child Survival and Development for Every Child in India
  7-9 FEBRUARY 2013 | CHENNAI, INDIA
• PUB: Pathfinder Intl- Straight to the Point: Identifying and Prioritizing Behavior Change Needs
• PUB: Interventions to improve mental health in pregnancy and among women who have recently given birth in low- and middle-income countries
• Consultation on Options for Action: Strengthening Financing for RMNCH
  3 FEBRUARY 2012 | LONDON
• Catapult announces fully funded projects

January

• Health ministers meet in Dubai to accelerate progress to achieve MDGs 4&5 in EMRO
  29 JANUARY 2013 | DUBAI
• iERG: 2013 Call for submission of evidence for good practice, obstacles and case studies
• UNICEF report says US$1.4 billion needed now for children in humanitarian crisis
• World Bank: Call for nomination to Health Nutrition and Population Civil Society Consultative Group
• African Union Heads of State Summit and CARMMA High-Level Event
  28 JANUARY 2013 | ADDIS ABABA
• World Health Organization Executive Board meets in Geneva
  21–29 JANUARY 2013 | GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
• Antibiotic resistant sepsis in newborns and infants: a major threat to achieving MDG-4 targets
• High-level Conference launch Global Campaign Report in Norway:
  Accelerating Progress in saving the lives of women and children
• Funding Opportunities - Saving Brains, Scaling Impact
• Inter Press Service: “There is Nothing Worse Than Holding a Dying Woman in Your Arms”
  IPS correspondent Sabine Clappaert interviews MARLEEN TEMMERMAN, head of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization (WHO)
• Accountability and Transparency in Global Health
• WHO reports measles deaths decline, but elimination stalls in some regions
  Improved vaccination rates critical for success
• Leaders invest in Africa's future through renewed focus on child survival
  16 JANUARY 2013 | ADDIS ABABA/WASHINGTON D.C.
• Training: ISGlobal - Cooperation agreement with Morocco for training and research programmes
• Request for Proposals: MSD for Mothers: Research on maternity waiting homes in Zambia
• The Philippines passes Reproductive Health Law

• Largest ever diarrhea study highlights solutions
  Findings published in The Lancet can guide prevention, treatment and research on diarrheal diseases, which claim the lives of 800 000 children annually
• GAVI deal secures record low price for HPV vaccines
  Historic agreements show power of innovative public-private partnership
• State of the World’s Mothers 2013
  First global analysis of newborn day-of-death data
• Vision Grant Program 2013
  Deadline for submissions: 17 May 2013
• Price of childhood vaccine to drop by 30%
  GAVI to reach millions of children with life-saving vaccine through partnership with Indian manufacturer
• Health partnerships call on G8 for support
  PMNCH and partners look to G8 Sherpas to lay groundwork for commitment in official outcome documents