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Results from the UN MDG summit: At the UN MDG Summit 20-22 September 2010 the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health was launched 16 . This document encourages governments, NGOs, universities, health workers, philanthropists and business partners to join forces to integrate and scale-up interventions and services proven to work. It emphasizes supporting country-led health plans, delivering packages of integrated care and building capacity in health workforces. More investment is needed to meet MDG5 - US 26 billion dollars in 2011. More than 40 million dollars was pledged at the summit. If implemented successfully, the strategy will provide access to modern contraception for 43 million more women, and enable 19 million more women to deliver their children safely, with a skilled birth attendant by 2015. This will prevent 33 million unwanted pregnancies, and save 570,000 women who would have otherwise died of birth or pregnancy complications. The 6 countries in which half the maternal deaths in 2008 occurred, with number of national maternal deaths (in 1000s) 3 68.3% 15.4% 18.2% 20% 36.7% 20.1% www.ghn.amsa.org.au 22 [1.] United Nations General Assembly. United Nations Millennium Declaration. A/RES/55/2. New York: United Nations, 2000 [2.] World Bank. Global Monitoring Report 2010. The MDGs after the Crisis. Available: http://web.worldbank.org/ WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTGLOBALMONITOR/EXTGLOMONREP2010/0,,contentMDK:22529228~pagePK:64 168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:6911226,00.html [3.] Hogan MC, Foreman JK, Naghavi M, Ahn SY, Wang M, Makela SM et al. Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980- 2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet. 2010; 375:1609-1623 [4.] Potts M, Hemmerling A. The worldwide burden of postpartum haemorrhage: Policy development where inaction is lethal. Int J of Gyn and Obst. 2006; 94(2):S116-S121 [5.] Ronsmans C, Graham WJ. Maternal mortality: who when, where and why. Lancet. 2006; 368: 1189-1200 [6. World Health Organisation statistical information system. World Health Statistics 2008. Available: http://www. who.int/whosis/whostat/2008/en/index.html [7.] Save the Children. Women on the front lines of health care: state of the world’s mothers 2010. 2010 IS BN 1-888393- 22-X [8.] Campbell OR, Graham WJ. Strategies for reducing maternal mortality: getting on with what works. Lancet. 2006; 368:1284-1299 vector FEB 2011 [9.] Singh S, Wulf D, Hussaid R, Bankole A, Sedgh G. Abortion worldwide: a decade of uneven progress. New York: Guttmacher Institute. 2009 [10.] Haddad LB, Nour NM. Unsafe abortion: unnecessary maternal mortality. Rev Obst and Gyn. 2009; 2(2): 122-126 [11.] United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010. Available: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ pdf/MDG%20Report%202010%20En%20r15%20-low%20res%2020100615%20-.pdf [12.] United Nations Population Fund. State of the World Population on Climate Change, Population, and Women. 2009. Cited in Save the Children. State of the World’s Mothers Report 2010. [13.] The Alan Guttmacher Institute. Sharing responsibility women, society and abortion worldwide. New York. 1999. Cited in Campbell and Graham 2006 [14.] Lim SS, Dandona L, Hoisington JA, James SL, Hogan MC, Gakidou E. India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation. Lancet. 2010; 375:2009-23 [15.] UNESCO. Reaching the Marginalised: EFA Global Monitoring Report. 2010 [16.] UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. 2010. Available: http:// www.who.int/pmnch/topics/maternal/20100914_gswch_en.pdf
aWindowintoGlobalHealth Goal 3: Empowering women and promoting gender equality Empowering women means ensuring they have the same opportunities in education, employment and politics as do their male counterparts. It means giving them a voice. In Bangladesh, the Female Secondary School Stipend programme has provided money directly to girls and their families to cover tuition and other costs, ensuring many more girls bear the radiant smile of this lady. photo by sophie white www.ghn.amsa.org.au vector FEB 2011 23
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