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Mali Event Spotlights Maternal and Newborn Mortality
31 July 2008
BAMAKO, Mali – Academic, NGO, and government officials held a press conference here July 31 to spotlight their action plans to lower the country’s high maternal and newborn mortality.  Click here for more |
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Public Broadcasting Looks In Depth at Maternal Mortality
22 July 2008
 NEW YORK—Public broadcasting television puts a spotlight on maternal health in Africa with a feature-length documentary on an unconventional project that trains midwives in Mozambique to perform obstetric surgery.
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African Traditional Leaders Take On Maternal Mortality
21 July 2008
ABUJA, Nigeria—Some 250 tribal and traditional leaders from 21 countries are meeting in Nigeria this week to draw up a joint assault on the continent’s stubbornly high maternal mortality rates. Click here for more |
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Global Health Committee Gives G-8 Poor Marks
18 July 2008
 Global health advocates at the recent Group of Eight summit conference have issued a scorecard giving the participating world leaders poor marks for their action – and inaction – on worldwide health needs, particularly those of women and children. Click here for more
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G-8 Summit Addresses Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
During their annual meeting held July 7-9 in Hokkaido, Japan, the heads of state of the Group of Eight (G-8) major industrialized countries for the first time focused on maternal health. Click here to read about advocacy efforts to get this placement on the G-8 agenda, news articles, and blogs from the Summit. |
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World Population Day to Focus on Family Planning
8 July 2008
 More than 140 countries will observe World Population Day on July 11 with events that focus on family planning as key to maternal and newborn survival, to the well-being of future generations and to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Civil Society Groups Petition G-8 to Meet Commitments
25 June 2008
JAPAN—A growing coalition of civil society organizations is petitioning the G-8 industrialized countries to take strong action at their July summit meeting of world leaders to redeem earlier pledges of greater investment in basic health care worldwide.
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Celebrities Help Launch “Mamma Campaign” in Sweden
13 June 2008
STOCKHOLM—Noted Swedish authors and TV personalities turned Mother’s Day in Sweden into a launching pad for a nationwide “Mamma Campaign” for education and action on high maternal mortality rates around the world.
The five-year project of the Swedish Family Planning Association (RFSU by its Swedish initials) opened here May 25 with celebrity readings and academic seminars on the reasons half a million women still die every year from pregnancy-related causes.
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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Resolution to Reduce Maternal Mortality at Home and Abroad
21 May 2008
WASHINGTON, DC—On May 21, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1022 "Reducing Maternal Mortality Both at Home and Abroad," a first step in a longer road toward new policies and more resources from the U.S. government to reduce maternal mortality and pregnancy-related injuries in the U.S. and throughout the world.
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Health Care Leaders Commit to
Improving Maternal Health
9 May 2008
ATLANTA—Global health leaders meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared today that the world’s maternal death rates are “unacceptable” and that strengthening national health systems is key to improving them.
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Countdown to 2015 Conference Ends on Hopeful Note
21 April 2008
 CAPE TOWN, South Africa—On April 19, new measurement tools, firmer costing figures and hopes of major donor action for the G8 meeting this July wrapped up the Countdown to 2015 conference on accelerating progress toward better health for mothers, newborns and children worldwide. Click here for more
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Breakthrough: The Women, Faith, and Development Alliance commit $1 billion to empower women and end poverty
22 April 2008
WASHINGTON, DC—On Sunday, April 13 2008, co-founders InterAction, Women Thrive Worldwide and the World Conference of Religions for Peace launched the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance (WFDA) at Breakthrough: The Women, Faith, and Development Summit to End Global Poverty. This unprecedented coalition of influential leaders represent more than 70 organizations in the feminist, faith and international development communities that work to bring an end to poverty. Click here for more |
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