Maternal And Child Mortality Improving Yet Few Countries Will Meet Millennium Development Goals

With four years left for countries to achieve international targets for saving the lives of mothers and children, more than half the countries around the world are lowering maternal mortality and child mortality at an accelerated rate, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington…

16 Countries Make New Commitments To Help Women And Children

Sixteen countries announced new commitments to dramatically reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality, as part of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. “Political and financial support for action on women’s and children’s health is reaching new and encouraging heights…

Delegation From Merlin And The Royal Society Of Medicine Aims To Reduce Deaths Of Pregnant Women In Liberia

An all-female delegation from the UK is to travel to Liberia today to look at ways of tackling the country’s appalling rate of maternal mortality*…

Media Outlets Examine How Maternal Health, Efforts To Reduce Global Poverty Will Be Central To Next Week's MDG Summit

Media outlets continued to look ahead to next week’s U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit, with a focus on two of the central themes to be addressed at the meeting – maternal health and poverty. “Reducing maternal mortality is viewed as critical for meeting” the MDGs, AOL News reports in a piece that examines the progress and challenges to achieving this goal…

Canada Willing To Spend $1B On G8 Maternal, Child Health Initiative

Canada has told other G8 countries that it “is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health – as long as other countries ante up, too,” the Canadian Press/Winnipeg Free Press reports. Canada’s pledge “will likely target poor countries with the worst records of maternal and child mortality and malnutrition,” according to the news service (Scoffield, 5/30)…

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