Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in the news 2009

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Disclaimer: "MNCH in the media" provides links to news stories regarding maternal, newborn and child health published on websites of national and international press. The Partnership is not responsible for the contents of these publications. Please contact the Partnership Web at pmnch@who.int to advise us if any links have stopped working.

• Ottawa Citizen: A motherhood issue
  31 DECEMBER 2009
• CORRIERE DELLA SERRA: Reproductive health supplement in Italian weekender
  NOVEMBER 2009
• BBC News: Maternal mortality: why so many mothers die giving birth
  26 OCTOBER 2009
• Times Online: Women step up pressure for maternal health
  24 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Daily Mirror: Will Brown lead the way on free healthcare for all?
  23 SEPTEMBER 2009
• New York Times: A tiny tax would do a lot of good
  23 SEPTEMBER 2009
• The Guardian: Extra $1bn for healthcare in world's 72 poorest nations
  22 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Politics.co.uk: Brown to address UN on world healthcare
  22 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Financial Times: UK funding spur for global health
  21 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Time Magazine: New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World
  18 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Financial Times: A tax on finance to help the world’s poor
  16 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Pittsburgh Post-gazette: Healthier beginnings: What the world can learn from Pittsburgh
  14 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Awoko: Move to kick start maternal deaths audit countrywide
  AUGUST 2009
• The Guardian Weekly: Primary needs for better health
  24 JULY 2009
• G8 in the news
  JULY 2009
• Science Speaks: Ken Mayer, Center’s co-chair, talks about Obama’s global health plan on NPR
  15 JULY 2009
• ONE: U.S. foreign aid appropriations update
  15 JULY 2009
• Ghana News: Funds to reduce maternal deaths
  14 JULY 2009
• Express buzz: Minister assures adequate supply of medicines
  26 JUNE 2009
• Reuters: New program to deliver vaccines to poor
  12 JUNE 2009
• Reuters: Countries at war get little aid for mothers, children
  9 JUNE 2009
• Boston Globe: Let's stop women's suffering
  4 JUNE 2009
• New York Times: Where life’s start is a deadly risk
  23 MAY 2009
• Financial Times: Global health programmes adjust to hard times
  24 MAY 2009
• AllAfrica.com: Activists mobilise against manto
  26 MAY 2009
• World Radio Switzerland: Interview with Acting-Director of The Partnership, Dr Flavia Bustreo
  22 MAY 2009
• Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report:
  WHO releases Report on health Millennium Development Goals: Child deaths drop worldwide - Slow progress on maternal, newborn deaths
  22 MAY 2009
• The Lancet: Commentary - Organizations call for a global fund for the health MDGs?
  5 MAY 2009
• Voice of America: Investing in child and maternal health makes good economic sense
  21 MAY 2009
• Reuters: Maternal deaths deemed inexcusable, "an outrage"
  19 MAY 2009
• Reuters: U.N. hopes to tap new sources of money for aid
  19 MAY 2009
• The New York Times: This mom didn't have to die
  16 MAY 2009
• NEW YORK TIMES: What a little vitamin A could do
  13 MAY 2009
• Bloomberg on MNCH: Speedo-wearing bankers descend on perfect beach
  4 MAY 2009
• AU commits itself to the fight against child and maternal mortality
• VOA: International lawmakers study ways to end global health care inequities
• The Guardian: Save the mothers
  7 APRIL 2009
• New York Times Global Edition: Pregnant (again) and poor
  4 APRIL 2009
• Health and the G20 leaders Summit
  2 APRIL 2009 | LONDON -
• Observer: Celebrity mothers join Sarah Brown to boost maternity campaign
  22 MARCH 2009
• The Lancet: Engaging the health community in global economic reform
  20 MARCH 2009 | LONDON
• The Times: WHO warns downturn could kill 400,000 children
• The New Vision: Britain donates £15 million to Uganda for maternal health
  5 MARCH 2009 | KAMPALA
• The Guardian: World's poor suffering most in the credit crunch
  5 MARCH 2009 | LONDON
• The ONE Blog: Maternal, newborn, and child health at a crossroads
  26 FEBRUARY 2009
• Orissadiary.com : Government of Orissa committed to reduce child mortality says minister
  13 FEBRUARY 2009 | ORISSA, INDIA
• Artfully Aware's Blog: Art for Health - contemporary art and women’s health
  13 FEBRUARY 2009
• University of Wisconsin News: Wisconsin Partnership to join fight against silent tragedy
  9 FEBRUARY 2009 | MADISON, WISCONSIN
• Reuters: World Bank to triple health lending to $3 billion
  5 FEBRUARY 2009 | GENEVA
• IRIN: Need to focus on maternal, child health - top AU official
  4 FEBRUARY 2009 | ADDIS ABABA
• IRIN: Maternal, neonatal mortality “too high”
  3 FEBRUARY 2009 | KATHMANDU
• Dawn.com: Pakistan + Norway sign mother-child health care accord
  30 JANUARY 2009 | ISLAMABAD
• Financial Times - Forgotten agenda: health for wealth
  25 JANUARY 2009 | DAVOS
• International Herald Tribune: Reversing Bush's assault on the UN Population Fund
  25 JANUARY 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• Reuters: Recession raises risks for mothers & babies
  19 JANUARY 2009 | GENEVA
• IRIN: Saving lives does not cost much
  15 JANUARY 2009 | JOHANNESBURG
• BBC News: 'Tragedy' of maternal death
  15 JANUARY 2009
• Inter Press Service: On course to Achieve MDG on Maternal Health
  13 JANUARY 2009 | KATHMANDU