PMNCH releases 2012

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May

• 2012 G20 Watch
  PMNCH & Partners letter to G20: Commitment to Global Health Partnerships
• PMNCH Board meets in New York
  04-06 MAY 2012 | UNFPA, NEW YORK - The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Board members held a successful spring board meeting in New York USA, kindly hosted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• Media Advisory Launch: Born Too Soon -The Global Action Report for Preterm Birth
  2 MAY 2012 | NEW YORK, NY – Please join us for a telephone briefing about important new evidence published today about the rising toll of premature birth.
• Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth
  Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth provides the first-ever national, regional and global estimates of preterm birth.

April

• Parliaments urged to scale up efforts in securing the health of women and children
  5 APRIL 2012 | KAMPALA, UGANDA - Leaders of nearly 120 national parliaments attending a major meeting here this week resolved to prioritize action and resources for improving the health of women and children.

March

• Africa Regional RMNCH Advocacy Strategy Implementation Meeting
  26 MARCH 2012 | KAMPALA, UGANDA - Over 140 partners gathered in Kampala to identify next steps in the implementation of the Integrated Strategy for Reproductive Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH), led by the African Union. This strategy, devised during a consultation in August 2011, promotes alignment of the implementation of several African and global frameworks for women’s and children’s health, including the Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal, Mortality in Africa, The Maputo Plan of Action and the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.
• A Promise to Keep: Ending Preventable Child Deaths
  PMNCH would like to thank all our Partners for sharing their views and comments on the deliverables, timeline, and integration of this project with the many other important global initiatives currently underway.
• Health partnerships reach out to G8 leaders
  MARCH 2012 - The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health has joined with three other leading global health partnerships to send an open letter to G8 leaders to ask for the inclusion of a specific statement of commitment and support for global health in this year's G8 Summit Declaration and accountability report.

February

• PMNCH Knowledge summaries: #17 - Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS)
  28 FEBRUARY 2012 | GENEVA – The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health has just released a new PMNCH Knowledge Summary: Civil registration and vital statistics. This is the 17th in a series of PMNCH Knowledge Summaries – briefs which address issues key to improving reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health wordwide.
• PMNCH welcomes 21 new members
  24 FEBRUARY 2012 | GENEVA – It is a pleasure to welcome 21 new members of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), bringing our total to more than 470 members.
• Live Twitter Chat to focus on child hunger with PMNCH Director & WHO Directors
  On 15 February 2012, join PMNCH, Save the Children, UN Foundation in a non-stop global “Twitter Chat” on child malnutrition: “Hidden Crisis” Tweet Chat - Life Without Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition.
• PMNCH Task Team on Financing for RMNCH

January

• Growing Business and Improving Women’s and Children’s Health
  27 JANUARY 2012 | DAVOS - The Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health led a special side event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to discuss a draft Guide, developed with FSG, to outline ways in which companies can contribute to improve the health of women and children.
• Know the numbers: African statisticians resolve to improve systems that report births, deaths and causes of deaths
  25 JANUARY 2012 | CAPE TOWN – African countries and development partners are advocating for the improvement of the systems that capture births, deaths and causes of death among their populations, especially the causes of death among women and children, to improve human rights and assist in proper planning and allocation of resources.
• PMNCH Board welcomes new Co-Chairs and Members
  JANUARY 2012 | GENEVA - In 2011, PMNCH co-chairs Vinod Paul (Academic Expert) and Purnima Mane (UNFPA) completed their terms with the PMNCH Board.