For more information on the health issues that affect women and girls, please read more on these important topics:

MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health and Universal Access to Reproductive Health

• Saving Women's Lives: Leading Killers and Practical Solutions (Download: Français / Español)
• The ABCs of the MDGs (Download: Français / Español)
• Maternal Mortality Scorecard (Download: Français / Español)
• Why So High? USA Facts on Maternal Mortality
• Real Stories About Women and Girls: Putting a Face on Women Deliver
• The Unfortunate Facts of Life in 2007 (Download: Français / Español)
• Review of the Maputo Plan of Action: A vehicle for achieving the MDGs in Africa
• The Road Map: Parliamentarians take action for maternal and newborn health
• Using the Millennium Development Goals to Realize Women's Reproductive Rights
• UNFPA: No Woman Should Die Giving Life
• Road to Women Deliver: History of Maternal Health Events
• Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress

Child Health

• The Next Revolution: Giving Every Child the Chance to Survive

HIV/AIDS

• WHO: Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector

Newborn Health

• WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement: Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival

Family Planning

• Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance
• Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health

Youth

• Young People and Universal Access to Reproductive Health

Gender Equity

• Programming to Adress VIolence Against Women: 8 Case Studies, volume 2

Human Rights

• No More Needless Deaths: A call to action on human rights and maternal mortality