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oman, Evvery Child
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Hosted b
by United
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ns Secretaary‐Gene
eral Ban Ki‐moon
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Sep
ptember 22nd 2:330‐4:00 pp.m.
Summ
mary of C
Committments for Wom
men’s aand Children’s H
Health
With only five yeears left until thee 2015 d deadline to t achievve the Millennium
Developm ment Goals, UN Seccretary‐Geeneral Ban n Ki‐moon n officiallyy launched d a global
effort onn women’ss and child dren’s heaalth in Neew York on April 14 4, 2010. Thhe Global
Strategy for Wom men’s and Childreen’s Healtth, develo oped by a wide range off
stakehold ders, sets out how we can w work togetther to im mprove the of women
e health o
and childdren.
All partners have aan importtant role tto play: governmen nts and po olicymakeers, donor
countriess and phillanthropicc institutio
ons, the United
U Nations and other mu ultilateral
organizattions, civil society,, the bussiness community, health workers w a
and their
professioonal assocciations, and
a acadeemic and research institutio ons. Over the past
year, leaaders from m these fields haave workeed togeth her to deevelop th he Global
Strategy.
The Glob bal Strateggy for Wom men’s and d Childrenn’s Health, launched d today, Ju
une 22nd,
at the ‘Evvery Wom man, Everyy Child’ sppecial even nt during tthe MDG Summit, sspells out
what we need to do to acccelerate progress.
p It calls forr a bold, coordinate
c ed effort,
building on what has been achieveed so far ‐ locallyy, nationally, region nally and
globally. It calls for
f all paartners too unite annd take action
a – through
t e
enhanced
financingg, strength hened poliicy and im
mproved seervice deliivery.
Since thee Joint Effo ort on Woomen’s and Children n’s Health h was launched in April 2010,
many partners havve come fforward w with ambitious pledgges to do more for women’s
and childdren’s health. This ssummary o of new sets out how w partners will conttribute to
achievingg better h health for women aand children around d the worrld, contributing to
some of tthe Globaal Strategyy’s key outtcomes. These inclu ude savingg 16 millio on lives by
2015, prreventing 33 millio on unwan nted preggnancies, protectin ng 120 millions
m off
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children from pneeumonia and 88 million
m ch
hildren fro
om stunting, advan ncing the
control o of deadlyy diseasess such ass malaria, HIV/AIDSS, and en nsuring access for
women aand childreen to quality facilities and skiilled healtth workerss.
Togetherr, our pled dges will eensure mo ore health h for the money, tthrough better and
more foccussed usee of all avvailable reesources. TThey also represen nt more m money for
health. TToday’s lau unch reprresents a m major step p towardss filling thee gap betw
ween the
investmeent needeed and what w is cu
urrently provided for
f womeen’s and cchildren’s
health – with an estimated
e d US$40 billion
b in funding co
ommitted over the next five
1
years. TThis funding will be
b measurred and tracked
t too ensure accountaability for
commitm ments, actions and rresults. Th hat this coomes from m such a w wide range of actors
is particuularly signiificant.
In the daays, weekss and mon nths ahead – all partners aree challengged to build on this
initial sett of commmitments, h highlighteed below.
Better health ffor the world’ss women and children will be
deliverred thro
ough thee follow
wing com
mmitmeents:
Governm
ments
Afghanisstan will inncrease pu ublic spen nding on h
health from m $10.92 to at leasst $15 per
capita byy 2020. Affghanistan n will increase the proportion of delivveries assisted by a
skilled professionaal from 24%
2 to 755% througgh strateggies such as increaasing the
number of midwivves from 2400 to 4556 4 and increasing the pro
oportion oof women
with access to emmergency obstetricc care to 80%. Afgghanistan will also improve
access too health services ‐ strengthening ou utreach, home vissits, mobile health
teams, and local h health facilities. Afghanistan w will increaase the usse of contraception
from 15% % to 60%,, the coveerage of childhood
c immunizaation proggrams to 95%, and
universallize Integrrated Man nagement of Childho ood Illness.
1
This figure includes the p
percentage off new committments to the Global Fund tto fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,
set out in thiis document, which are direectly attributaable to womeen’s and childrren’s health. SSignificant furtther pledges
are expected d.
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Australiaa supportss the UN Secretaryy‐General’s Global Strategy for Wom men’s and
Children’’s Health as a firm
m platformm for putting the health nee eds of wo omen and
children back into the centrre of the d development agend da. Recogn nising thee need for
increased d effort on
o women’s and children’s
c health, Australia
A will invesst around
US$1.5 b billion (A$1.6 billion n) over thee five yeaars to 2015 on interrventions evidence
shows will
w impro ove maternal and child heealth outcomes. These T will include
expandin ng access to familyy planningg and vacccination services,
s a fundin
and ng skilled
health workers (including m midwives), health faccilities and d suppliess. Financiaal support
committeed in 201 10 includees an additional USS$79.5 miillion (A$8 85 million n) for the
Pacific and Papuaa New Gu uinea and d US$131 million (A$140
( m
million) for Eastern
Africa. Australia’s strong foccus on Ind donesia, SSouth Asiaa and effeectively peerforming
internatioonal orgaanisations will also continuee. [on currrent projjections subject to
annual budget pro ocesses]
Bangladeesh comm mits to: dooubling thhe percenntage of births
b atte
ended by a skilled
health wworker byy 2015 (frrom the current level of 24.4%)
2 th
hrough traaining an
additionaal 3000 midwives,
m staffing all
a 427 su ub‐districtt health centres
c to
o provide
round‐the‐clock midwifery
m services, and upgrading all 59 districct hospitals and 70
Mother aand Child Welfare C Centres ass centres o of excellence for em mergency obstetric
care servvices. Ban ngladesh will also reduce the rate of adoleescent preegnancies
through ssocial mobilization, implementation off the minimum legaal age for marriage,
and upgrrading onee third of MNCH centres to p provide addolescent ffriendly seexual and
reproducctive healtth services. Banglad desh will hhalve unmmet need ffor familyy planning
(from thee current level of 18%)
1 by 2015;
2 and
d ensure universal
u implemen ntation off
the Integgrated Managementt of Childh hood Illness Program mme.
Benin will increasee the national budgget dedicaated to heealth to 10% by 2015 with a
particular focus on women n, children d HIV; intrroduce a policy to
n, adolesccents and
ensure universal free access to emerrgency ob bstetric care; ensuree access tto the full
package of reprod ductive health inteerventionss by 2018 8; and increase th he use off
contraception from m 2.2% to 15%. Ben nin will alsso step up
p efforts to o address HIV/AIDS
through providingg ARVs to 90% of HIV+ preggnant women; enssuring thaat 90% off
health ceentres offfer PMTCT servicess; and en nacting measures against
a stiigma and
discriminnation. Benin will deevelop ne ew policies on adolescent sexual healtth; pass a
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law again
nst the trrafficking of childreen, and im
mplementt new leggislation o
on gender
equality.
As Chair of the G8
8, Canada made maaternal, neewborn an nd child hhealth a prriority for
the G8 Muskoka
M Summit in June 20010. At th
he Muskooka Summ mit, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper co ommitted C$1.1billiion in new w and addditional funding for women's
and childdren's heaalth as parrt of the MMuskoka Initiative. Prime Minister Haarper also
confirmeed renewaal of existting resou
urces of C$1.75 billion, meeaning Canada will
provide CC$2.85 billion for M
MNCH by 2 2015. Canaada will foocus its effforts on improving
the services and care needeed to ensu ure health hy pregnancies and d safe delivery, and
placing a particular emphasis on meeeting the n nutritional needs off pregnantt women,
mothers,, newborn ns and you ung childrren. Canad da will wo
ork to incrrease acceess to the
high‐impact, cost‐effective interventiions that aaddress th he leadingg killers off children
under thee age of fiive.
Canada w will also ccommit an
n additional $540 mmillion oveer three yyears to thhe Global
Fund to FFight AIDSS, Tubercu
ulosis and Malaria. TThis is in aaddition tto a total of $978.4
million th
hat Canada has com mmitted annd disburssed to the e Global Fu und since 2002.
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China wiill continu
ue to increase its domestic
d investmen nt in wommen and children's
c
health, thhrough ne ew policiees and meeasures, and additio onal finanncing. New w reforms
now bein ng implem mented wiill providee basic heealth care insurancee for all. TThere are
also neww measures which eespecially benefit ru ural womeen, includiing free breast and
cervical cancer sccreening, hospital birth‐delivery sub bsidies, annd free folic
f acid
supplemeents. Add ditional measures
m include ffree hepaatitis B vaccinatio
v n for all
children under 15 years old, a nation nal immun nization prrogram co overing all children,
and free services to preven nt mother‐to‐child transmisssion of th he HIV virrus for all
pregnantt women. The government w will also reimburse 9 90% of me edical exppenses for
rural children who o have con ngenital heeart diseasse or leukaemia.
Congo co ommits to reducin ng matern nal mortaality and morbidityy by 20% by 2015
includingg obstetricc fistula, by introduccing free o obstetric ccare, inclu
uding free access to
caesarean section ns. Congo will also o establish a new observattory to in nvestigate
deaths linked to p pregnancy; and will support w women’s empowerrment by passing a
law to ensure equ ual repressentation of Congo olese wom men in political, eleected and
administrative possitions.
The Dem mocratic Republic
R of Congoo (DRC) will
w develo op a national heallth policy
aimed too strengthen health h systems,, and will allocate m more fund ds from the Highly
Indebted d Poor Co ountry prrogram to the heealth secttor. DRC will incrrease the
proportio on of deliveries asssisted by a skilled birth
b attendant to 80%, and d increase
emergency obstettric care and the use of contracepc ption. Thee governm ment will
increase to 70% th he number of childrren underr 12 months who arre fully im mmunized;
ensure that up to o 80% of children under 5 and pregnant wom men use ITNs;
I and
provide A AVRs to 20 0,000 morre people living with h HIV/AID DS.
Ethiopia will increease the number of o midwivves from 2050 to 8635; 8 incrrease the
proportio on of birtths attended by a a skilled profession
p nal from 18% to 60%;
6 and
provide eemergenccy obstetric care to all womeen at all h health cenntres and hospitals.
Ethiopia will also increase the proporrtion of ch hildren im mmunized against m measles to
90%, and provide e access to preveention, caare and support
s a
and treatment for
HIV/AIDSS for all thhose who need it, b by 2015. A As a resultt, the government expects a
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decreasee in the maternal
m m
mortality r
ratio fromm 590 to 2
267, and under‐five
u e morality
from 101 1 to 68 (pe er 100,000 0) by 2015 5.
France aannounced d 500 miillion euro os for the period 2011‐201 15 to suppport the
Muskokaa initiativee. Furtherm more, Fraance anno ounces this week an n increasee by 20 %
of its conntribution to the Global Fund d to fight AIDS, TB aand Malaria over th he period
2011‐201 13 (1.080 billion eu
uros as co ompared to t 900 miillion euro os for the previous
trienniumm).
Germanyy is develo oping a neew initiativve on Volu untary Fammily Plann ning with rresources
to be maade available for fam mily plann ning and rreproductive health h and rights as part
of Germaany’s ongo oing annual committment in tthe area o of mother and child health off
300m eu uros per year and G Germany’ss commitm ment mad de in Junee at Musko oka of an
additionaal 400m euros over the next ffive years.
Ghana w will increasse its fundding for heealth to at least 15% of the national b budget by
2015. Gh hana will aalso strenggthen its ffree maternal health care policy, ensure 95% off
pregnantt women are reacched with h compreehensive PMTCT
P seervice and ensure
security ffor family planning commodities. Ghan na will further improve child health by
increasinng the proportion of fully imm munized cchildren to o 85% and d the prop portion off
children under‐fivee and pregnant women sleep ping undeer insecticide‐treateed nets to
85%.
Haiti willl create a financial mechanissm to ensu ure free mmaternal, newborn and child
health seervices, an nd develop p a plan fo or human resourcess in health h by 2015.. Haiti will
also provide emeergency obstetric
o care in 108
1 health instituttions constructing,
rehabilitaating or equipping
e facilities as necesssary. Haiti will furtther reducce unmet
need forr family pllanning frrom 38% to 10% by improviing comm modity seccurity and
making services more youth h‐friendly.
India is spending o over US $ 3 3.5 billion
n each year on healtth servicess, with sub bstantial
expenditure on serrvices aim med towards women n’s and children’s health. Currrently,
ocusing on
India is fo n strength hening its efforts in the 235 districts that accoun nt for
nearly 70 0% of all in
nfant and maternal deaths. B Between now and 20 015, Indiaa will
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provide ttechnical aassistancee to other countries and share e its experrience, an nd will
support tthe creatio on of a plaatform forr global kn nowledge managem ment to ovversee
the disseemination of best prractices.
Indonesia will enssure all deeliveries w will be performed byy skilled b birth atten ndants by
2015. This universal access interventiion is aimeed at redu ucing the maternal mortality
m 228 perr 100.000 live birthss in 2007 tto 102 perr 100.000 live birthss in 2015.
ratio from
In 2011, at least oone and a half (1.5) million d deliveries b by poor w women will be fully
funded bby the goovernmentt. Central Governm ment fund ding for health
h in 2011 will
increase by USD 556 million compared to 2010. 2 Thiss fund will
w be avaailable to
support professio onal healtth person nnel and to achievve qualityy health care and
services in 552 hospitals,
h 8,898 health centres and 52,000
5 village heaalth posts
througho out Indone esia.
At the Pleenary of the MDG SSummit Jaapan’s Prim me Ministter will lau unch its neew Global
Health Policy, which places a special focus on n maternal, newborrn and child health
and will ccommit to o provide $ $ 5 billion in five yeears from 2 2011. Und der this neew Policy,
Japan will supportt the Glob bal Strateggy by imp plementingg and advvocating aa package
model byy the nam me of “EMBRACE”, w which inteends to en nsure the continuum m of care
from preegnancy to o post nattal stage. Japan alsso reaffirm
ms its finaancial commmitment
made at the G8 Muskoka
M S
Summit to
o provide up to an additionaal $500 million
m for
maternall, newborn and child health in five years from 2011 will be fulfilleed as part
of today’s $5 billioon committment.
Kenya wwill recruitt and dep
ploy an ad dditional 20,000
2 prrimary carre health workers;
establish and opeerationalizze 210 primary heaalth facility centres of exceellence to
provide m maternal and child health se ervices to an additio onal 1.5 m million wo omen and
1.5 millio
on childreen; and will
w expan nd comm munity heaalth care,, and deccentralize
resources.
will increasse health sspending ffrom 4% tto 10% of the national budgeet and will
Liberia w
ensure thhat by 201 15 there are double e the number of mid dwives traained and deployed
than werre in the h health secctor in 200 06. Liberiaa will provvide free universal access to
health seervices inccluding faamily plannning andd increasin ng the pro oportion of health
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care clinics providding emergency obsstetric carre service es from 33 3% to 50% %. Liberia
will increease the proportio on of immmunized children
c to
t 80%, and a addreess social
determin nants of ill‐healtth through increeasing giirl’s education, and the
mainstreaming of gender isssues in national devvelopmentt.
Malawi w will strenggthen hum man resou urces for h health, inccluding accceleratingg training
and recruitment of o health profession nals to fill all available posittions in thhe health
sector; expand
e infrastructuures for maternal,
m newborn and child health; increase
basic emmergency obstetric and neo onatal carre coveraage to reach Worlld Health
Organization stand dards; and providee free carre through partnerrships witth private
institutio
ons.
Mali commmits to create a free medical assisttance fund by 2015 5 and to reinforce
existing solidarity and muttual funds for heaalth, and extend the t coverrage of a
minimum m packagee of health h intervenntions. Maali will imp plement aa national strategic
plan for improvin ng the repproductivee health of adolesscents; an nd will sttrengthen
emergency obstettric care, introducin ng free caaesarean and fistula servicess, also by
2015. Mali will promote
p improvem ments in child
c heallth througgh free vitamin
v A
supplemeents, and increased screening for an nd management off malnutrition, and
through the exteension off the Inttegrated Managem ment of Childhoo od Illness
Programm me. Mali will also distributee free inssecticide‐ttreated beed‐nets to o women
making second antte‐natal viisits, and rremove taaxes on otther ITNs.
Mozamb bique com mmits to increase the perceentage off children n immunizzed aged
under 1, from 69 to 90 percent by 2012 and to increase tthe numb ber of HIV++ children
receivingg ARTs fro om 11, 9000 to 31,000 by 2012.
2 Mozzambique will also increase
contraceptive prevvalence frrom 24 to o 34 % byy 2015 an nd will inccrease insstitutional
deliveriess from a level of 49% to 66% by 2015.
2 Mo
ozambique e also commits to
establish a centre ffor the treeatment o of obstetriic fistula in n each pro ovince by 2015.
Nepal commits to t recruit, train and deploy 10,00 00 additional skilled birth
attendan nts; fund free
f mateernal heallth servicees amongg hard‐to‐reach pop pulations;
and will ensure at a least 70%
7 of primary
p health care centress offer em mergency
obstetricc care. Nepal will also doublee coveragge of PMTTCT; reducce unmet need for
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family pplanning to
t 18%, including by makking family planning servicces more
adolescent friendlyy and enccouraging public‐private parttnerships tto raise awareness
and increease acceess and uttilization. Nepal wiill work to improvee child heealth and
nutrition through rolling out
o the Community
C y Based Integrated d Manageement off
Childhoo od Illnesse
es Programmme from m 27 districts to all 75 districts in thee country;
maintaining de‐worming and micro o‐nutrient supplem mentation coveragee at over
90%; and d impleme enting effeective nutrition inteerventionss (using innovative programs
such as cash trannsfers to pregnant and lacttating women and other co ommunity
based inttervention ns).
Niger commits to increase health sp pending frrom 8.1% to 15% by b 2015, with free
care for maternal and childd heath, including obstetric complicattions man nagement
and fam mily plannning. Nigeer will trrain 1000 0 providers on haandling ad dolescent
reproducctive healtth issues, and to address
a domestic violence
v a female genital
and
mutilatioon (FGM). Niger wiill reduce the fertility rate from
f 3.3% % to 2.5%% through
training 1500 provviders of family plaanning, and creatin ng 2120 new
n contraception
distributiion sites.. Niger will
w furth her equip p 2700 health
h ceentres to support
reproducctive healtth and HIV V/AIDS ed ducation, aand ensurre that at least 60% % of births
are attennded by a skilled professional. Niger w will additio onally intro oduce new w policies
that suppport the health
h of women and a childrren, includ ding legisllation to make
m the
legal age of marriaage 18 yeaars and to improve female literacy from m 28.9% in 2002 to
88% in 20 013.
Nigeria endorses the Secrretary Geeneral’s Strategy on o women’s and cchildren’s
health, and affirmss that the initiatives is in full alignmen nt to our eexisting co ountry‐led
hrough the
efforts th e National Health P Plan and sttrategies ttargeted ffor implem mentation
for the pperiod 201 10 – 2015,, with a fo ocus on th he MDGs in the firsst instancee and the
national Vision 200 – 2020. In this regard, Nigeria is committed to t fully fuunding its
health prrogram att $31.63 p per capita through increasingg budgetaary allocattion to as
much as 15% from m an averaage of 5% % by the FFederal, Sttates and Local Govvernment
Areas by 2015. Thiis will include financcing from the propo osed 2% o of the Con nsolidated
Federal R Revenue C Capital to be provid ded in thee Nationall Health B Bill targeteed at pro‐
poor wo omen’s an nd childrren’s health servicces. Nigerria will work w towwards the
integratioon of seervices foor materrnal, new wborn and child Health, HIV/AIDS, H
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Tuberculosis and M Malaria ass well as sstrengthen ning Healtth Manage ement Infformation
Systems. To reinfo orce the 2488 Midw wives recently deplo oyed to lo ocal health h facilities
nationwide, Nigeriia will intrroduce a policy to increase tthe numb ber of coree services
providerss includinng Commu unity Heaalth Exten nsion Worrkers and midwives, with a
focus on deployingg more skiilled healtth staff in rural areaas.
Norway will increaase its con ntribution n to the Global Fund d for AIDSS, Tubercu ulosis and
Malaria bby 20% fo or the nextt 3 years, making a total con ntribution in 2011‐1 13 of USD
225 milliion. This is in addiition to the comm mitment made
m in Ju
une as paart of the
Muskokaa initiative of USD $5 500 millio on for the period 20 011‐2020.
Rwanda commits to increassing heath h sector spending ffrom 10.9% % to 15% by 2012;
i
reducing maternal mortalityy from 75 50 per 100,000 live e births too 268 perr 100,000
hs by 2015
live birth 5 and to h halve neon natal morttality amo ong wome en who deeliver in a
health faacility by training five timees more midwives
m (increasing the raatio from
1/100,00 00 to 1/20 0,000). Rw wanda will reduce th he proporttion of children witth chronic
malnutrittion (stun nting) froom 45% to t 24.5% through promoting good nutrition
practicess, and will increasee the prop portion off health facilities
f w electrricity and
with
water to 100%.
Sierra Leeone will increase aaccess to h health faccilities by ppregnant women, n newborns
and child
dren undeer five by 40% thro ough the removal of user feees, effecttive from
April 27 2
2010. Sierrra Leone w will also ddevelop a Health Co ompact to align deveelopment
partners around a single cou untry‐led national h health straategy and will ensurre that all
teachers engage in n continuo ous professsional devvelopmen nt in health h.
Tanzaniaa will incrrease health sectorr spending from 12% to 15 5% of thee national
budget by
b 2015. Tanzania
T will incre
ease the annual
a ennrollment in health h training
institutio
ons from 5000 to 10,000, and the graduate output o froom health h training
institutio
ons from m 3,000 to 7,00 00; simultaneouslyy improvving recruitment,
deployment and retention
r through new
n and innovative e scheme es for perfformance
related ppay focusing on maaternal and child heealth servvices. Tanzzania will reinforce
the impleementatio on of the policy forr provision n of free rreproducttive health h services
and expaand pre‐paayment scchemes, in ncrease th he contracceptive preevalence rate from
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28% to 60%; exxpand co overage of o health facilitiess; and provide
p b
basic and
compreh hensive Em mergency Obstetric and Neewborn care. Tanzzania will improve
referral and communicatio on system ms, includ ding radioo call com mmunicattions and
mobile ttechnologgy and will
w introduce new,, innovattive, low cost ambulances.
Tanzania will increease the p proportion n of Children fully im mmunized d from 86% % to 95%,
extend PPMTCT to all RMNCH servicces; and secure
s 800% coveraage of lon ng lasting
insecticid
de treated d nets for children under fivee and pregnant women. Tanzania will
aim to inncrease the proporttion of chiildren who o are exclusively brreast fed ffrom 41%
to 80%.
The UK iss currentlyy re‐oriennting its aid program mme to pu ut women n at the heeart of its
developm ment efforts and is focusing rigorouslyy on results, includ ding a review of all
bilateral and multtilateral aid
a prograammes to o maximisse impactt on motthers and
babies. TThe UK’s nnew Busineess Plan fo or Reprod ductive Maaternal an nd Newborn Health
will set out how thhe UK aimss to increaase effortss up to 20 015 'to dou uble the n number off
maternall, newborn and children's livves saved. It is anticcipated th hat UK aid will save
the lives of at leastt 50,000 w
women in pregnancy and childbirth, a q quarter off a million
newborn n babies an nd enablee 10 millio on coupless to accesss modern methods of family
planning over the next five yyears.
To achievve this ammbitious ggoal, the U UK will double its annual sup pport for M Maternal,
Newborn n and Child Health by 2012, and susstain that level to 2015. The UK will
provide aan annuall average of £740 million
m (US$1.1 billion) for Maternal,
M Newborn
and Childd Health from
f 20100 to 20155. This meeans that over this period th he UK will
spend an additio onal £2.1 1bn on Maternal,
M Newborrn and Child
C Heaalth. This
commitm ment addss an additiional £1.6bn to the commitm ment of £4 490m the UK made
for 2010 and 2011 at the Mu uskoka Su ummit.
USA: Thee commitm ments detailed in th his document build on importtant recen nt efforts,
notably PPresident Obama’s Global Health Initiiative (GH HI), a $63 billion iniitiative to
help parttner counttries save lives and achieve ssustainable health o outcomes. Through
the GHI, the United Statess will scalee up effo
orts and achieve
a siggnificant results in
maternall and child d health aand familyy planningg. The GH HI sets outt ambitiou us targets
for improoving maternal and child health to inspire an n intensivve effort, and will:
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reduce m maternal m mortality b
by 30 perccent acrosss assisted d countries; reduce mortality
rates forr children under 5 by 35 peercent across assissted countries; reduce child
under‐nu utrition by
b 30 peercent accross asssisted foo od insecure coun ntries, in
conjunction with the
t Presid dent’s Feeed the Futture Initiaative; double the number off
at‐risk babies borrn HIV‐freee, from a baseline of 240,,000 babiies of HIV V‐positive
mothers born HIV V‐negativee during the first five yearrs of PEP PFAR; and d reach a
modern ccontracep ptive prevaalence ratte of 35 peercent across assisteed countrries.
Yemen w will enforce the ministerial
m decree to provide e free contraceptivves to all
women of repro oductive age, and d free deeliveries, and willl endorsee a safe
motherhood law to t minimiize harmfful practicces. Yemen will exp pand Reproductive
Health services to o reach 85%
8 of alll health facilities,
f f
focusing expansionn in rural
areas, annd increasee by 20% the perceentage of h health faccilities thatt provide basic and
compreh hensive Em mergencyy Obstetriic and Neo‐Natal Care serrvices. Yeemen will
increase security on essen ntial druggs and co ontraceptivves throu ugh impro oving the
logistics managem ment systeem, ensurring full cost
c coverrage of reeproductivve health
commodity securiity, mainttaining the full cosst coveragge of rou utine vacccines and
assuring financial sustainab bility of new vaccin nes accorrding to GAVI’s
G co‐‐financing
policy.
Zambia ccommits to: increase national budgetary expend diture on hhealth from 11% to
15% by 2 2015 with a focus on n women and childrren’s health; and to o strengthen access
to familyy planningg ‐ increasing contraaceptive p prevalencee from 33 3% to 58% % in order
to reducee unwanted pregnaancies and d abortion ns, especially amon ng adolesccent girls.
Zambia w will scale‐uup implem mentation of integraated comm munity case managgement off
common diseases for womeen and children, to b bring heallth service es closer to
o families
and communities tto ensure prompt care and trreatment.
Zimbabw we will inccrease health spen nding to 115% of thee health budget
b orr $20 per
capita annd establissh a mateernal, new wborn and child survvival fund by 2011 using the
same app proach as the succeessful Educcation Traansition Fu und (ETF) led by thee Ministry
of Education, Sports, Arts and
a Culture and ad dministereed by UNIICEF. The fund has
raised USS$50 millio on in the first year for the m ministry’s p priorities, and contrributed to
donor co oordination and harrmonizatio on. Zimbaabwe will abolish user fees ffor health
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services ffor pregnaant womeen and for children u under the age of 5 yyears by the end off
2011; annd will strengthen the Mateernal and d Newborrn Mortality audit system ‐
piloting aa new sysstem in two provin nces in 2011 beforre expand ding natio onwide in
2012.
Muskokaa Initiative e
In June 2
2010 at the G8 Muskoka Su ummit, paartners to o the Musskoka Inittiative for
Maternal, Newbo orn and Child Heaalth committed US$7.3 U billion in new and
additionaal fundingg for MNCH by 2015 5. It was aanticipated that, subject to respective
budgetarry processses, the Muskoka
M Initiative would
w eveentually mobilize
m m
more than
US$10 biillion. In June,
J G8 partners committe
c d US$5 billion in new
n and additional
a
funding by 2015. Togetherr, the Govvernmentts of the Netherlan nds, New Zealand,
Norway, the Repu ublic of Korea, Spaain and Swwitzerland d, the Billl & Melin
nda Gates
Foundation and UN U Foundation com mmitted U US$2.3 billion by 2015.
2 Acco ording to
WHO an nd World Bank esttimates, the t Muskkoka Initiaative will assist deeveloping
countriess in preveenting 1.3 million deaths
d of children under
u fivee years off age and
64,000 m maternal d deaths, an nd enable access to o modern methods of familyy planning
by an add ditional 12 2 million ccouples.
The US, UK, Austrralia and Gates havve formed d a new aalliance, to o work toogether in
partnersh hip at the global levvel and with selecteed high‐neeed countries in sub b‐Saharan
Africa an A to acccelerate progress in reducing uninteended pregnancies,
nd South Asia
reducing maternall and neon natal morrtality, and d addressiing key elements of MDGs 4
and 5 wh here proggress has b been espeecially slow w. The alliance will work to help 100
million mmore women satisfyy their neeed for mod dern family planningg by 2015.
Philanth
hropic In
nstitution
n & Othe
er Funders
The BBC World Tru ust commmits $30 m
million over the nextt 5 years. TThe Trust will scale
up its wo
ork in Africca and Asia to help
p build thee capacity of local communitiies to use
media aand comm munications to im mprove health. Th he Trust is comm mitted to
developinng pioneeering new approach hes to heaalth comm munication ns using th
he power
of new mmedia and communiications te echnologyy.
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The Bill && Melindaa Gates Fo oundation n commitss $1.5 billion over tthe next 5 5 years to
improving women n’s and children’s health. Through
T a partnersship with Boston’s
Children’’s Hospitaal the Bill & Melind da Gates Foundation will ad dditionallyy provide
$2.4 milllion to suupport the develop pment of a neonatal HIV vaccine.
v The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation also com mmits $50 million over o the next
n five years for
improving nutritio on and health
h in south eaastern Meexico and d Central America
through a partnerrship with h the Funndaciόn C Carlos Slimm and Salud Meso oamerica,
both of w which orgaanisationss commit aan additional $50 m million each.
The Centre for In nfectious Disease Research in Zamb bia (CIDRZZ) “Wom men First”
commits $3.5 milliion and co ommits to o raise an additional $6.5 milllion. In paartnership
with the Ministry of Health in Zambia, CIDRZ is creatting a cen ntre for trreatment,
research and traaining on women's health in Africaa, includiing treatm ment for
preventin ng motheer‐to‐child transmission of HIV/AIDS, treating
t children
c livving with
AIDS and d tuberculosis, and cervical caancer. Add ditionally the Centrre of Excellence for
Women'ss Health will
w includ de a pharmacy and d commun nity centree to teach h women
life and job skillss. CIDRZ has received supp port from the Fish her Found dation off
Detroit, A ASHA and d individuaal and smaall foundattion dono ors to supp port this eeffort.
The Children’s In nvestmentt Fund Fo oundation n (CIFF) commits
c to suppo orting the
Global Sttrategy through new w multi‐yeear investtments on n a national scale prioritizing
ucational achievement, and nutrition and hungger issuess through
child surrvival, edu
efforts iin the dewormin
d g of sch hoolchildrren, prevvention of o motheer‐to‐child
transmisssion of HIV/AIDS, achieveme
a ent in earrly childhoood educaation, red duction off
neonatal mortalityy and seveere acute m malnutrition.
The Daviid and Lu ucille Packkard Foun ndation co ommits $120 millio on over th he next 4
years to ensure that
t famiily planning and reproductiive health h informaation and
services are moree accessib ble to all. It will support
s n
new fundiing initiattives that
promote women’s leadersship at global, reggional, naational an nd local levels to
revitalizee political wwill and build new m momentu um to supp port increased investment in
reproducctive health and im mproved reproducttive healtth outcom mes for co ouples in
Bihar, India. The Foundatio on has also partneered with h the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundatiion to support a new,
n Advaance Fam mily Planning, initiaative that seeks to
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revitalizee political and finaancial commmitmentts in ninee countrie es through African
women leeaders an nd their neetworks.
EMpoweer committs $328,00 00 in 2011 to suppport new grants in India and d Nigeria,
EMpower will makke grants to Jabala Research Organization (Indiaa), Navsarrjan Trust
(India), N
Nishtha (IIndia), Vaacha (India), Girls Power Initiative (N Nigeria), and
a KIND
(Nigeria).
The Ford d Foundattion comm mits an estimated
e $18 million per yeear for th he next 4
years to help the UN addreess key gllobal heallth prioritties, includ
ding stren ngthening
sexual and
a reprooductive health and rightss through h compreehensive sexuality
education and an e evidence‐based pub blic discou
urse ‐ supp porting vissionary peeople and
organizattions working to en nsure thatt young peeople are empowered to have access
to the infformation n and serviices they n need.
The John D. and d Catherine T. MacArthur
M r Foundation com mmits $28 8,300,000
between 2010 an t support reductions in maternal
nd 2011 to m mortality in India,
Mexico, aand Nigeria, including to help p reduce d deaths from postpartum hem mmorhage
and eclam mpsia, as w well as to support kkey materrnal health h research h and advo ocacy.
Global FFund for Women commits $2 million over the next 2 years towards
advancin ng health and sexual and reeproductivve rights in over 40 countries in the
Americass, Asia and d Oceania,, Middle EEast, North h Africa, and Sub‐Saaharan Afrrica.
Grand Ch hallenges Canada ccommits, w with fund ding from the Government off Canada,
to the lauunching off a grand cchallenge in matern nal and ch hild health.
Medtron nic Foundaation com mmits to su upport keey planning and advvocacy acttivities on
a global scale, to ensure th hat the UN
U Generaal Assemb bly Speciaal Session on Non‐
Commun nicable Diiseases (U UN Summ mit), takin
ng place in September of 2011, is
successfu ul in catalyzing global effortts toward NCDs, esspecially with
w regard to the
care and d treatmeent of the most vulnerable
v e populations inclu uding women and
children. To do so, Medtron nic will funnd activitiies of the NCD Alliaance and ttwo of its
federatio ons (World Heart Federation and Internationaal Diabetes Federaation), to
ensure that they are able to: 1) Ad dvocate foor a stron
ng, unifiedd civil socciety NCD
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movement 2) Mob bilize glob
bal public support tto influence the UN N Summit to adopt
key outco omes; 3) Define a gglobal plan for NCD Ds and shaare innovaative solutions and
best pracctice; 4) Make
M the business case for iinvesting in NCDs; 5) Promo ote health
systems & & solution ns for NCDD prevention & treatment."
Planet Wheeler
W Foundatio on will commit $5 5.6m tow wards a scientific
s study to
determin ne whetheer the pow wer of maass mediaa can be harnessed
h to save cchildren’s
lives on an unprecedented scale. Th he projectt will be implemen nted in paartnership
with the Wellcomee Trust. A A model deeveloped by Develo opment M Media Inteernational
(DMI) annd the Lon ndon Scho ool of Hyggiene andd Tropical Medicine e (LSHTM)) predicts
that child
d mortalitty can be reduced by 10% to t 20% in n most deeveloping countries
simply b by broadccasting raadio and televisio on messages on all a key life‐saving
behaviou urs. If these impactt and costt‐effectiveeness pred dictions could
c be p
proven to
rigorous scientific standards, in a reaal‐life settting and implemen nted in10 countries
over 10 yyears, the model preedicts som me 2.2 milllion lives could be ssaved.
The TY D Danjuma FFoundatio on committs $5 millio on over th he next 5 years in N Nigeria: in
grants too women and children’s he ealth initiatives un nder its Communit
C ty Health
Initiatives Program mme; to support the strengtheningg of matternal heaalth care
centres, train hosp pital persoonnel, don nate medical equip pment and d provide technical
support to health h centres in rural communities; to support
s th
he organisation off
consultattive meetiings and ccapacity building traaining to sstrengthen the gran ntees and
other partner orgaanisationss effectiveeness in th he area off maternaal and chilld health;
and to identify and forge collaboraations witth other philanthrropic orgaanisations
working iin similar areas of in nterventio on.
The UN FFoundatio on committs (with itss partners) $400 million over the next 5 years in
support of the Global Strattegy (including $21 15 millionn committted in Jun ne 2010).
Through campaign ns and partnershipss UNF’s co ommitmeent will heelp the UN N address
key globaal health priorities including childhood d immunizations, m malaria prevention,
holistic h
health for adolescent girls, access to t reprod ductive he ealth supplies and
services, clean cook‐stovess, and imp proving maternal
m a otherr health o
and outcomes
through m mobile tecchnologiees.
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The Wom men's Funnding Netw work and the International N Network o of Women n’s Funds
jointly co
ommits $7 7 million for the next year on behalff of 12 women’s fu unds that
make heealth focu used gran nts in higgh burden n countriees. The two
t netw works will
strengtheen health systems ffor women and chilldren thro ough invesstments and grants
in womeen‐led solutions thaat addresss health and welln a part of a holistic
ness as a
approach h to fosterring comm munities, ccountries aand nations that thrive. The Networks
are comm mitted to ensuring tthat up to o 70 perceent of grants made by womeen’s funds
reflect a health componen
c nt. The networks foundatio
f n partnerrs includee: African
Women’ss Development Fun nd, Americcan Jewish h World Se ervice, Bangladesh W Women’s
Foundation, Mam ma Cash, Mary’s Pence, Nirrnaya Tru ust, Sparkk,Tewa, Th he CIDRZ
Foundation, Women of thee Evangelical Lutheran Churcch, Wome en Win, and World
Young W Women’s Christian Association n.
The Uniited Natiions and other M
Multilaterral Organ
nizationss
The GAVVI Alliancee commitss on behaalf of GAV VI and its partners to suppoorting the
Global Sttrategy ovver the neext 5 yearss. Through the pow wer of innovation ‐ vaccines,
public‐prrivate parttnership and financing mechaanisms, GA AVI will heelp the UN N address
key glob
bal health priorities, including leadin ng childho ood killerss, pneumonia and
diarrhoeaa, by incrreasing acccess to life‐saving vaccines for children includ ding new
HPV vacccines again nst cervicaal cancer b by girls in the world d’s poorest countriees.
The Globbal Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberrculosis and Malariia: The Global Fund d, a major
internatioonal chan nnel for deevelopmeent assistaance for h health, is ccontributing to the
improvem ment of m maternal and child h health thro ough its support off a range o of HIV, TB
and malaaria intervventions for
f wome en and children acrross the continuum
c m of care,
The Globbal Fund iss committeed to intensifying itts contribu utions to m maternal, newborn
and child
d health (M MNCH) an nd will continue to augmentt its investtments in n order to
acceleratte progress toward d the heaalth relatted MDGss in gene eral and MNCH in
particular. To date e, The Glo obal Fund has provided direcct supportt to MDGs 4 and 5
with contributionss of at leasst US$ 4.4 4 billion, aand this figgure is exxpected to o increase
substantially in the 2011‐20 013 period d subject to the ou utcome off the Glob bal Fund's
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upcoming replenisshment co
onference
e and Board discusssion on deeeper involvement
in MCH.
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Civil Socciety/No
on‐Goverrnmental Organizzations
Amnestyy Internattional will advocate e for equal and timmely access to reproductive
healthcare services for all w women and girls and d campaiggn for greater accountability
for violattions of reeproductivve health rrights.
BRAC co ommits to o raise $700
$ milliion over the nextt five years in su upport off
programmes and p projects inn Banglade esh and otther countries.
CARE com mmits $1.8 billion over the next 5 yeears to expand succcessful maaternal &
newborn n health prrograms to more th han 30 cou untries byy 2015, to empowerr girls and
women tto increasse gender equity and to linkk health systems an nd communities in
systems o of mutuall accountaability; ado opting inn novative aapproachees to securre service
provisionn for the h hard‐to‐reaach.
DKT International commits through tthe HAND D to HAND D Campaiggn to increase new
users of family plaanning fro om 19 milllion couples to 25 m million couples and d increase
of 6 million useers by 2015 and sell 3 million condoms, 250 million oral
contraceptives and d 60 millio
on injectabble contraaceptives aand 500,0 000 IUDs b by 2015.
Family Care
C Interrnational (FCI) commmits to advocate e for the political will and
investmeent to significantly expand funding
f foor effectivve maternnal, newbborn, and
child heaalth servicces, and for
f their integratio on with diisease‐spe ecific interventions
and broaader healtth system ms strengtthening , to push for
f and faacilitate the active
engagem ment of civvil societyy in health h and deveelopment policy an nd program ms at the
global, national, and comm munity leveels, and demand th hat all stakeholderss are held
accountaable for fulfilling theeir committments.
FHI comm mits throuugh the HAND to
H H
HAND Cam mpaign to o galvanizee the commmunity's
contributtion to thee Global SStrategy and endorse the Coalition's aambitious new goal
of achievving 100 million neew users of contraaception in low‐inccome cou untries by
2015. FHHI is comm mitted to tthe qualityy assurance of contraceptivee commod dities and
its qualitty assurannce progrram to help ensurre the safe use off a wide range off
contraceptive metthods. Succcess at meeting
m this challe
enge will address
a the family
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planning needs off 80% of women
w in
n these coountries, and reduce by 110 0,000 the
number o of women n who die giving birtth.
Global A
Alliance to o Prevent Prematurity and d Stillbirth
h committs to devvelop and
uphold a Code of C Conduct that puts forth stand dards of eexcellence for all rep positories
to be uph held in partnership with coun ntries wheere repositories aree being esttablished;
collaboraate with itts Researcch Harmonization C Committeee to developing rep positories
in consid
deration of efforts tto enhance national capacityy of the co ountry’s healthcare
and reseearch secttors; workk collaborratively with
w the lo
ocal comm munity too develop
innovativve approaaches to engageme
e ent in ressearch; evvaluate th
he effectivveness off
upholding the Code of Co onduct and identifyy areas fo or further enhanceement off
operation ns in eacch countryy on an annual
a baasis. Engaage cross‐‐sectors (nutrition,
water, ssanitation)) in such h efforts with thee resolvee of cond ducting the
t most
compreh hensive research to achieve iimproved birth outcomes. Sh hare best practices
in research at a conferen nce in 20012 for all organizzations an nd publish a case
statemen nt outlininng the criitical need for straategic investments in pregnancy and
post‐birth scientifiic research where large health gains ccan be ach hieved thrrough the
developm ment of new, low w‐cost, higgh‐impactt innovatiions and develop a global
advocacyy campaiggn to catalyze funding to pro omote thee utilizatio w science,
on of new
technology and tools to advvance rese earch and developm ment on pregnancy and early
life.
The Global Health Counccil (GHC) commitss to creaate politiical will, mobilize
communities to he elp educaate and mobilize co ommunitie es on wommen and children’s
c
health isssues, inccrease thee engagement witth the prrivate secctor by id dentifying
increased d opportu unities forr public‐private parrtnershipss and orgaanizing rooundtable
meetingss and releevant initiaatives to b bring parttners togeether and GHC will prioritize
and advo ocate for w women an nd children n’s health .
The Glob bal Leaderrs Councill for Reprroductive Health (G GLCRH) co ommits $1 1,846,669
over the next 2 years.
y Thee Global Leaders Council
C co
ommits to o create an
a expert
working ggroup to p produce p policy brieffs on the linkages b between reproductive health
and developmen nt outco omes inccluding gender
g e
equity, MDGs, economic
e
developm ment, global securrity and climate
c chhange. Thhe GLCRH will convene the
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Aspen Po opulation and Glob bal Healthh Roundtaable Seriees at the Aspen Institute in
Washingtton, DC; tto host a P Population, Health and Deveelopment track at the Aspen
Ideas Fesstival in Aspen,
A COO; and to mobilize political will and financial
f r
resources
necessary to achieeve universal accesss to reprod ductive heealthcare b by 2015.
Internatiional Budget Partn nership co ommits to o explore and sharee best praactices in
the field
d of the generatio on and publishing
p of comp prehensivee and meaningful
maternall health budget
b infformation,, continuee to support the acctive partticipation,
involvemment, and monitorin ng by civil society off health and develo opment bu udgets, at
the global, nation nal, and local
l leveels, feed relevant
r e
examples of health budget
monitoring and expenditurre tracking of the IBP’s parrtner orgaanizations into the
monitoring effort o of the Gloobal Strateegy for Wo omen’s an nd Children’s Health h.
Internatiional Plan nned Paren nthood Fe ederation (IPPF) commits thrrough the HAND to
HAND Caampaign to strive to contrib bute to meeting
m he needs of the 21
th 15 million
women w with unmeet needs ffor contraception byy increasing the number of n new users
of IPPF ccontracepttive servicces by at least 50%% by 20155, and at least dou
ubling the
number of unintended pregnancies averted through t th
he Campaaign. By 2015
2 they
aim to deeliver 80% % of servicces to thee poorest, most marginalized d and under‐served
women o of the worrld.
IntraHealth Intern national commits by strivin ng for ways to offfer an in ntegrated
package of servicees for wom men and th heir families that ad ddresses ttheir mostt relevant
health needs, con ntinue to support increased d capacityy of the health workforce,
w
support iimprovem ments – large and small – witthin the h health systtems and supports
high quality, evideence‐based d and inteegrated seervices thaat can be offered att multiple
levels of the systeem, with a focus on
o ensuring that services
s come closeer to the
communities wherre the wo orld’s popu ulation livves and wwhere the majority o of deaths
of women and new wborns occcur.
Populatio on Service es Internaational (PSSI) commits on beh half of PSI and theirr partners
to suppo ort over the
t next 5 years the proviision of life‐savingg productss, clinical
services, and behaaviour change com mmunications that empowerr the worrld's most
vulnerable populations to lead healtthier lives. PSI’s commitmen nt will help the UN
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address key global health priorities, including malarria, child survival, HIV and
reproducctive healtth.
The Reproductive e Health Supplies
S Coalition commits,, through its launcch of the
HAND to o HAND Caampaign, to achievve 100 million new modern ccontracepttive users
by 2015 tthereby fu ulfilling th
he family pplanning n needs of 8 80 percentt of womeen in low‐
and middle‐incom me countries of thee develop ping world d. The Re eproductivve Health
Supplies Coalition is leadingg the effoort for thee Global Strategy am mong its members
organizattion by encouragi
e ng them and thee broaderr health and deveelopment
communities to co ommit resources, sccale up seervices, pro ovide supplies and advocate
reaching this goal.
Save thee Children n committs up to $500 milllion per year for the nextt 5 years
(includingg $150 million
m co
ontributed d by privvate indivviduals) to o: promo ote policy
changes that acccelerate progress
p on MDG4 4; expand and in ntensify efforts
e to
integratee proven ttechnologyy into heaalth system ms to protect newb borns in 112 priority
countriess; train 4000,000 heaalth workers; mobilize civil ssociety to hold goveernments
accountaable; enggage with h multi‐ssector paartners to o help deliver life‐saving
programming. Savve the Chiildren is also
a comm mitted to advocatin ng for equ
uity in all
health annd nutritioon program mmes to eensure thaat disprop portionatee levels of mortality
in poor and margin nalised gro oups are nno longer tolerated.
Susan G. Komen fo or the Curre Global Health Allliance com mmits $50 00,000 thrrough the
expansion of the their
t Middle East Partnersh
P ip Initiativve to broaaden the focus for
women'ss cancers and wom men's heallth and in nclude a financial
f c
commitme ent and a
health seervices co
ommitmen nt to the NGOs wo orking in the
t Middlle East to o improve
women’ss health by addresssing issuess of breastt and cervvical cancer in an in ntegrated
health caare system m.
The US Coalition for Child d Survivaal committs by pleedging con ntinued efforts
e to
promote and acchieve sp pecific Coongression nal legislation to assure on‐going
developm ment of a US strateggy to imprrove women’s and cchildren’s health.
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White Ribbon Alliance forr Safe Mo otherhood d and its memberss in 148 countries
commit to the Global Straategy by engaging local, national, reegional, an nd global
organizattions and individuals to ensure MNCH is a priority issue ffor all goveernments
and holdd governm ments acco ountable to their financial,
f policy, an
nd implemmentation
commitm ments thro ough 2015 5
Women Deliver commits
c t keepin
to ng up thee pressuree to imprrove wom men’s and
children’s health o over the neext five yeears, trackking comm mitments m made and d ensuring
the globaal spotligh ht stays on those w who have power to help keep girls and d women
alive andd healthy. Working w with 15,00 00 advocaates aroun nd the glob be, Womeen Deliver
will certify that governme
g ents, policcy‐makerss, health systems, foundations, civil
society oorganizatio ons and innternational agenciees understtand that the time ffor action
is now, aand to staanding reaady to hellp anyonee turn goood new id deas into reality
r on
the ground. Women Deliver will convene a global conference in 2013 to celebrate
successes and launch the final
f push to 2015 and pled dges to ke eep deliveering new
hope for girls, wom men and cchildren fo or as long as it takess to meet their need ds.
World Viision Interrnational commits $ $1 billion in supporrt of a fam mily and co ommunity
model of health care delivvery, focu using on a health and nutrition strategy, the
preventio on of mother‐to‐ch hild transmmission of
o HIV/AID DS and HIV/STI screeening off
children.
In additio on to the above commitmen nts, the fo ollowing organizatio ons have eexpressed
their end dorsement of the Global
G Strrategy forr Women’’s and Children’s Health:
H 34
Million FFriends of UNFPA, A Academy ffor Educational Devvelopmen nt, Advancce Family
Planningg, JHU Blo oomberg School
S of Public He ealth, Afrrican Med dical and Research
Foundatiion (AMR REF), Africca Public Health Allliance & 15 Percent Plus Campaign,
Amnestyy Internatiional, Am mhara Developmentt Association, Azad India Fou undation,
Catholic Medical M Mission B Board(CMMB), Centtre for De evelopme ent and Po opulation
Activitiess (CEDPA), Center for Heallth and G Gender Eq quity (CHHANGE), C ChildFund
Internatiional, Children’s Project
P In
nternational, Enge enderHealth, FHI, German
Foundatiion for World
W Population (D DSW), Glo obal Allian nce to Prevent Pre ematurity
and Stillbirth, Graam Bharaati Samiti (GBS), Guttmache er Institutte, Health
h Alliance
Internatiional, Ibiss Reproductive He ealth, Internationaal Budgett Partnersship(IBP),
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Internatiional HIV//AIDS Allliance (Alliance), International Paediatric Asssociations
(Ipas), IInternatio
onal Wom men’s Health
H Cooalition, IntraHealth Interrnational,
Japanesee Organizaation for Internatio onal Coop peration in Family Planning (JOICFP),
Live Alive Foundation Nige eria, Manaagement SSciences ffor Health h, March of Dimes
Foundatiion, Mothers 2 Mother,
M Nari
N Unnaayan San ngstha, Nestlé, Partners in
Health, Pathfinde er Internaational, Project
P C
Concern Internatio onal (PCI), Project
C.U.R.E, RESULTS Internattional, Saafe Mothe erhood Program,
P Dept of Ob/Gyn,
Reproductive Scie ences, Un
niv. of Caalifornia, Space Alllies, US Coalition
C for Child
Survival, VSO United Kingddom, Wom men & Ch hildren Firrst UK, Women
W Annd Health
Alliance (WAHA).
The Bussiness Co
ommunitty
Beckton Dickinsen n committs to be a
a participaating parttner in ‘Together For
F Girls,’
with UNICEF, UNA AIDS, UNFP PA and UN NIFEM, prrivate secttor organizations an nd the US
government to help the UN N drive forrward solu utions towwards ending sexual violence
against ggirls.
The Bod dy Shop commits
c over $2.225 million
n for theeir initiative, ‘Stop the Sex
ng of Children and Young People’,
Traffickin P developed in partne ership witth ECPATT
International, and launched in 60 cou untries. Thhe Body Sh hop will laaunch in D December
2010 the first of 3 annual caampaigns iin partnerrship with UNAIDS.
GE Healthcare co ommits, as
a part of
o GE’s $6
$ billion ‘healthym magination’ global
program,, to expand its Maaternal‐Inffant Caree portfolioo by 35%,, offering targeted
technologies to over 80 co ountries in order to
t increasse local access
a to care and
improve maternal & newborn survivaal in low and middlee‐income ccountries;; included
are safetty tested,, affordab
ble and easy‐to‐us
e e infant care prod ducts thatt provide
warmth ffor newbo orns, phototherapyy to treat jaundicedd infants and incub bators for
premature babies, develo opment of very simple warmers, respirattory and
phototheerapy devvices for developing
d g nations at dramatically reeduced co ost and a
novel meethod for providingg portablee oxygen to mothe ers in childbirth and to new
born bab bies.
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GlaxoSm mithKline ccommits tto providee 200 milliion doses of a de‐w worming treatment
for childrren; keep profit maargins on d drugs sold d in low in ncome cou untries to o no more
than 30% % of the US profit m margin; and to reinvvest 20% o of the profits made on these
drugs in llow incom me countries into inffrastructu ure in thosse countrie es.
John Sno ow, Inc. (JSI) commits througgh the HAND to HA AND Camp paign to su upporting
the availability of contracep ptives in low‐incom me countriies througgh the pro ovision off
supply chhain manaagement technical assistancce and traaining for national, regional,
and global program ms; to colllecting acccurate, timely info ormation aabout the status off
supplies, program requirem ments, and d supply cchain operrations in over 20 ccountries,
and sharring that information widelly with sttakeholdeers to raisse awareness and
improve decision‐m making.
Johnson & Johnso on commiits $200 million
m ovver the neext 5 yearrs for a paackage off
commitm ments calleed ‘Every Mother, Every Chiild’ that aims to heelp as man ny as 120
million wwomen and children n each year. Every Mother, EEvery Chilld aims to o increase
life expecctancy and quality‐‐of‐life forr women aand childrren in the developing world.
Johnson & Johnso on is comm mitted to providingg more thaan 15 million expecctant and
new motthers in Banglades
B h, China, India, Meexico, Niggeria, and South Affrica with
free mob bile phonee messagees on prenatal health, remin nders of clinic appo ointments
and calls from heaalth mentors over tthe five‐year program. Johnsson & Joh hnson will
also donaate 200 m million dosees, each yyear, of meebendazole, a treattment for intestinal
worms in children. Johnso on & Johhnson is also committed to o researching and
developin ng a drugg for tubeerculosis with
w a neew mechanism of action a in 40 years,
antiretroovirals to ttreat HIV aand poten ntially preevent HIV transmisssion from pregnant
women tto their inffants, as w well as neww technollogies thatt may, in tthe futuree, prevent
the transsmission of
o HIV bettween adults. John nson & Johnson is also comm mitted to
extending currentt committments to o peer ed ducation programss that haave been
successfu ul in preventing mother‐to
m o‐child traansmission of HIV V; reducin ng a life‐
threatening condittion in inffants caussed by lacck of oxyggen at birtth (birth aasphyxia);
and upgrrading exissting healtth care facilities to accommo odate morre women at risk off
fistulas.
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LG Electrronics com mmits to in nvesting in Bottom of the Pyyramid (BO OP) comm munities in
Kenya and Ethiopia throu ugh a paartnership p with thhe World d Food Program’s
P
Partnership of Hope – Africca. Througgh this parrtnership, LG Electronics is co ommitted
to povertty alleviation and reeducing hu unger thro ough sustaainable deevelopment.
Merck co ommits an n estimateed $840 m million oveer the nexxt 5 yearss through their HIV
preventio on and treatment
t t, childhood asthm ma prograams and donation n of HPV
vaccine, GARDASIL®, to orrganization ns and innstitutionss in eligib
ble lowest income
countriess to enable countries to develop capacity to impleement vaaccination
programss. Merck and Qiaggen are also a committed to o increasing accesss to HPV
vaccination and HPV DNA testing
t in some of the most resource‐poor areeas of the
world thrrough up to five million dose es of GARD DASIL and HPV DNA A tests to sscreen an
additionaal 500,000 0 women.. The two companiees will alsso supportt the deveelopment
and imp plementation of sustainablee best practice
p m
models fo
or cervicaal cancer
reduction n in low‐inncome, higgh diseasee burden ccountries.
Novo No ordisk com mmits to co ontinue to o work tow wards imp proving the health o of women
and childdren with a specificc focus on n screening, treatment and ccare for geestational
diabetes and will develop a a partnersship‐based d programmme, as part
p of a long‐term
commitm ment to su ustainablee improve ement in health, th hrough which
w the company
will cam
mpaign fo or universsal screening for gestational diabeetes; sup pport the
developm ment of new
n evidence and d platform ms for acction by addressin ng critical
research gaps; mo obilise keyy stakeholders at national
n and global levels to promote
change wwith a possitive health impact for wom men and the
t next generation
g n; engage
key partners in exploring and
a co‐creating inn novative solutions targetingg women,
diabetes and pregn nancy.
Pfizer coommits an estimatted $200 million o over the next 5 years.
y Through its
programss and partnershipss, Pfizer will help the UN address key global health
ng infant immunizzation forr pneumo
prioritiess, includin ococcal disease, education,
training aand policyy program ms on mateernal and infant heealth, malaaria treatm ment and
malaria ttreatmentt for pregn nant wom men, progrrams and partnersh hips that eempower
women aand girls women and a girls to deal successful
s ly with isssues of HIV/AIDS,
H
malaria, maternal mortalityy and edu ucation, reducing
r m
maternal death and serious
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injury asssociated wwith uncontrolled b bleeding aafter childbirth, and d nutrition n, first aid
and healtthy living ffor elemeentary scho ool childreen.
SingleHo op committs by fighting IP thefft and hum man abusee such as child porn nography,
and emp powering w women. TThrough itts AbuseSh hield.org site, SingleHop willl mobilize
the onlin ne commu unity to reeport illeggal, inhum mane, and maliciouss content and help
authorities and hoosting com mpanies around
a th
he world keep
k track of and eliminate
such content.
TMA Deevelopment, Train ning & Consulting
C g (Egypt) commitss by pled dging, in
cooperattion with the Egyp ptian Min nistry of Social So olidarity, to help eradicate
illiteracy among Egyptian
E women and a to emmpower them t tow
wards earrning and
making aa better liffe.
ViiV Heaalthcare commits $47
$ million betweeen 2010‐2015, and an additional $31
million th o 2020 to tackle mo
hrough to other to cchild transsmission o of HIV (MTTCT). ViiV
Healthcare has tarrgeted 80 0% of the Positive Action
A forr Children Fund’s suupport to
sub‐Sahaaran Africaa to respo ond to where the gllobal burd den of MTTCT is greaatest. The
Fund is aan importaant part of ViiV Heaalthcare’s overall mission to d deliver advances in
treatmen nt and care for peop ple living wwith and ccommunitties affecteed by HIV.
Health‐C Care Workkers
The Heaalth Care e Professsionals Association ns (HCPA A) of thee Partnerrship for
Maternal, Newbo orn and Child
C Health collectively com mmit $15 million in i in‐kind
commitm ments ove er the nexxt five yeears throuugh suppo ort to Miinistries of
o Health,
District ggovernmen nts, UN aggencies an nd Bi‐laterrals in 25 countries across Affrica, Asia
and Latinn Americaa. The Intternationaal Federattion of Gynaecologgy and Obstetrics,
the Interrnational Confederration of Midwives
M s, the Inte
ernationall Council of
o Nurse,
and the International Paediatric Asssociation n are com mmitted to continu uing their
close co ollaboratio
on with the Council of International Neon natal Nurrses, the
International Pharrmaceaticaal Federattion, and the World Federattion of So ocieties off
Anaestheesiologistss. The HC CPAs are also com mmitted to working with po olicy and
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implementing ageencies to improve quality
q an
nd to exteend coverrage of th
he key 22
Countdow wn suppo orted interrventions in these h high‐burdeen countrries by at lleast 20%
over the next five yyears.
Academic and Ressearch Institutions
Institute for Globaal Health o of Barcelo ona, ISGlo obal comm mits to enggage in an inclusive
and partiicipatory pprocess, advocate for this pro ocess and help deve elop and ppromote
disciplinaryy and coordinated gglobal reseearch agenda in thee context o
a multi‐d of the
Global Sttrategy in Europe an nd internaationally th hat can be e actionabble by don nors and
the acadeemic community. This work w will help to
o develop p a commo on strateggy for
indicatorrs and ben nchmarks ffor donors and goveernments to monito or progresss,
develop aa common n strategyy to inform
m and alloccate resou urces morre effectiveely and
equitablyy, promotee research h in politiccal & econnomic areaas and its translatio on into
useful infformation n for discussion with h policy makers to d develop to ools that aare
specific to improvee women’s and child dren’s heaalth statuss, such as microbicides and
vaccines and test if these prroducts can benefit those thaat need them the most.
CRESIB and ISGlobal will hosst the 2011 biannuaal meetingg of Federaation of th he
European n Societiess for Tropical Mediccine and Internation nal Healthh (FESTMIH H) under
the motto ‘Global Change, M Migration and Healtth’ IS Glob bal will usee this evennt and
other upccoming fo orums to p promote W Women’s aand Childrren’s healtth among
academiaa and reseearchers.
A numbeer of otheer academ mic and research
r Institutes across Euurope, Assia, North
America, and Africca have already enthusiasticcally endorsed the Global Strrategy. In
responsee to the Secretaryy‐General’’s call for action, they havve indicated their
intentionn to promo ote womeen and chiildren’s heealth through conducting ressearch for
reducing illness and
a deathh, engaging in thee trainingg of the current and next
generatioon of glob
bal health
h professio onals, andd contribu
uting to policy
p deveelopment
over the coming years. Theyy include: Universitty of Aberrdeen, Agga Khan University,
Universitty of Ghe ent, Interrnational Center for
f Diarrh hoeal Dissease Ressearch in
Bangladeesh, Lond don Schoo ol of Hyggiene and d Tropicaal Medicine, John Hopkins
Bloombe erg School of Publicc Health, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute
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for Mateernal and Child Heaalth, Royaal College of Obstettricians an
nd Gynaecologists,
Consortiuum of Universitie
U es of Glo
obal Heaalth repre esenting 60 leadin ng North
Americann membeer Universsities and their university partners
p in low and middle
income countries in Africa, Asia and
a Northh America, and reesearcherrs at the
Universitty of Toro
onto and the All India Institutte of Medical Sciences.
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