The PMNCH 2011 Report: Analysing Commitments to Advance the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
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Massive Push to Improve the Health of Women and Children: Tens of billions have been committed from both rich and poor countries
20 SEPTEMBER 2011 | GENEVA/NEW YORK - In only one year, more than 100 countries, foundations, multilateral organizations, the UN, the private sector, and academic and professional associations have made unprecedented financial and political commitments to greatly improve the health of women and children.
Notably, 44 of the world’s poorest countries — among them Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, and Nepal — have now joined the Every Woman, Every Child effort, which takes forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September 2010. This brings the total number of partners in this joint effort to more than 200. These nations have committed almost $11 billion of their own limited resources to the global effort to reduce the annual death toll and improve the health of this group, according to a report released today, Analysing Commitments to Advance the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, from The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH).
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