CommonHealth (Coalition on Maternal-Neonatal Health and Safe Abortion)
PMNCH constituency
Non-governmental organization
Focal point
Dr Suchitra Dalvie
Position
Coordinator
Health focus
- Maternal/Reproductive Health
- Newborn Health
Priority action area(s)
- Advocacy
Mission statement
CommonHealth' s mission is to:
- Raise visibility about the unaccceptably high numbers of preventable mortality and mortality among mothers and newborns, and the lack of access to safe abortion, especially among the disadvantaged
- Mobilize advocates from different constituencies who will collectively generate pressure in a deliberate, organized and systematic way to:
- ensure effective implementation of relevant policies anbd programmes
- contribute to the development of new policies
- build a rights-based and gender-sensitive perspective within communities, health care providers, researchers, administrators, elected representatives and the media.