New U.N. Commission Will Track Donors' Pledges On Maternal, Child Health

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete will co-chair a new “U.N. commission tasked with tracking whether $40 billion in pledges from countries and aid groups are really flowing to efforts to improve the health of mothers and young children in poor countries, and what impact the programs have,” the Globe and Mail reports (Clark, 12/16)…

New U.N. Commission Will Track Donors' Pledges On Maternal, Child Health

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete will co-chair a new “U.N. commission tasked with tracking whether $40 billion in pledges from countries and aid groups are really flowing to efforts to improve the health of mothers and young children in poor countries, and what impact the programs have,” the Globe and Mail reports (Clark, 12/16)…

New U.N. Commission Will Track Donors' Pledges On Maternal, Child Health

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete will co-chair a new “U.N. commission tasked with tracking whether $40 billion in pledges from countries and aid groups are really flowing to efforts to improve the health of mothers and young children in poor countries, and what impact the programs have,” the Globe and Mail reports (Clark, 12/16)…

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)…

Opinions: Family Planning; U.S. Food Aid

Comprehensive Family Planning Approach Needed, Not Just ‘Contraceptive Dispensary’ In his latest New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof writes about the “unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” noting some experiences from a recent trip to Africa. “So the pill, 50 years old this month in the United States, has yet to reach parts of Africa…

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