Commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health as of February 23, 2012 Source: Every Woman Every Child website (www.everywomaneverychild.org)
Number of commitments on the Every Woman Every Child website: 203 Number of stakeholders making commitments: 217
The reason why there is a difference between the number of commitments and the number of stakeholders is that some commitments were made by multiple stakeholders: Muskoka Initiative: the additional stakeholders include those who did not make an individual commitment to the Global Strategy: G8 members (Italy, Russia and European Union) and partners (the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland) H5: UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO HRP: UNDP HCPA: ICM, ICN, IPA, FIGO, RANZCOG, SOGC, WFSA.
Categories Low-income countries ...... 2 Middle-income countries ...... 15 High-income countries ...... 17 Foundations ...... 22 United Nations and multilateral organizations ...... 27 Global partnerships ...... 30 NGOs ...... 35 Business Community ...... 54 Health Care Professional Associations ...... 64 Academic, research and training institutions ...... 66 Additional endorsements ...... 71
Commitments by category (n=203) Stakeholders by Category (n=217)
14 3 13 8 52 52 26 26
5 4 13 16 60 60 17 17 7 12 3 12
Low-income countries Middle-income countries High-income countries Foundations United Nations and other multilateral organizations Global partnerships NGOs Business community Health-care professional associations Academic and research institutions Low-income countries
(52 commitments, 52 stakeholders)
Afghanistan (September 2010) Afghanistan will increase public spending on health from $10.92 to at least $15 per capita by 2020. Afghanistan will increase the proportion of deliveries assisted by a skilled professional from 24% to 75% through strategies such as increasing the number of midwives from 2400 to 4556 and increasing the proportion of women with access to emergency obstetric care to 80%. Afghanistan will also improve access to health services - strengthening outreach, home visits, mobile health teams, and local health facilities. Afghanistan will increase the use of contraception from 15% to 60%, the coverage of childhood immunization programs to 95%, and universalize Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.
Bangladesh (September 2010) Bangladesh commits to: doubling the percentage of births attended by a skilled health worker by 2015 (from the current level of 24.4%) through training an additional 3000 midwives, staffing all 427 sub-district health centres to provide round-the-clock midwifery services, and upgrading all 59 district hospitals and 70 Mother and Child Welfare Centres as centres of excellence for emergency obstetric care services. Bangladesh will also reduce the rate of adolescent pregnancies through social mobilization, implementation of the minimum legal age for marriage, and upgrading one third of MNCH centres to provide adolescent friendly sexual and reproductive health services. Bangladesh will halve unmet need for family planning (from the current level of 18%) by 2015; and ensure universal implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Programme.
Benin (September 2010) Benin will increase the national budget dedicated to health to 10% by 2015 with a particular focus on women, children, adolescents and HIV; introduce a policy to ensure universal free access to emergency obstetric care; ensure access to the full package of reproductive health interventions by 2018; and increase the use of contraception from 6.2% to 15%. Benin will also step up efforts to address HIV/AIDS through providing ARVs to 90% of HIV+ pregnant women; ensuring that 90% of health centres offer PMTCT services; and enacting measures against stigma and discrimination. Benin will develop new policies on adolescent sexual health; pass a law against the trafficking of children, and implement new legislation on gender equality.
Burkina Faso (September 2010) Burkina Faso has met the 15% target for health spending, and commits to maintain spending at this level. Burkina Faso will also develop and implement a plan for human resources for health and construct a new public and private school for midwives by 2015. This is in addition to other
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initiatives being pursued which will also impact on women’s and children’s health, including free schooling for all primary school girls by 2015, and measures to enforce the laws against early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation.
Burundi (May 2011) Burundi commits to increase the allocation to health sector from 8% in 2011 to 15% in 2015, with a focus on women and children’s health; increase the number of midwives from 39 in 2010 to 250, and the number of training schools for midwives from 1 in 2011 to 4 in 2015; increase the percentage of births attended by a skilled birth attendant from 60% in 2010 to 85% in 2015. Burundi also commits to increase contraception prevalence from 18.9% in 2010 to 30%; PMTCT service coverage from 15% in 2010 to 85% with a focus on integration with reproductive health; and reduce percentage of underweight children under-five from 29% to 21% by 2015.
Cambodia (September 2010) Cambodia will ensure that 95% of the poor are covered by health equity funds by 2015, and develop a new policy to ensure availability of emergency obstetric care at the district level. Cambodia will improve reproductive health by increasing the proportion of deliveries assisted by a skilled birth attendant to 70%; increase the proportion of couples using modern contraception to 60%; and increase the number of health facilities offering safe abortion/post abortion services. Cambodia will further seek to increase attendance at ante-natal clinics to 90% and attendance at post-natal clinics to 50%.
Cameroon (September 2011) Cameroon commits to implement and expand the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA), re-establish midwifery training to train 200 midwives a year, and pilot a performance-based financing and a voucher system in order to promote access to maternal and child care services. Cameroon further commits to increase the contraception prevalence from 14% to 38%; the proportion of HIV+ pregnant women access to antiretrovirals from 57% to 75%; and the vaccine coverage from 84% to 93%. Cameroon will increase to 60% the proportion of health facilities offering integrated services; increase to 50% the proportion of women with access to Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) services; offer free malaria care to children under 5; ensure free availability of mosquito-treated nets to every family; increase funding to paediatric HIV/AIDS; strengthen health information systems management and integrated disease surveillance.
Central African Republic (May 2011) Central African Republic commits to increase health sector spending from 9.7% to 15%, with 30% of the health budget focused on women and children’s health; ensure emergency obstetric care and prevention of PMTCT in at least 50% of health facilities; and ensure the number of births assisted by skilled personnel increase from 44% to 85% by 2015. CAR will also create at least 500 village centers for family planning to contribute towards a target of increase contraception
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prevalence from 8.6% to 15%; increase vaccination coverage to 90%; and ensure integration of childhood illnesses including pediatric HIV/AIDS in 75% of the health facilities. Chad (May 2011) Chad commits to increase health sector spending to 15%; provide free emergency care for women and children; provide free HIV testing and ARVs; allocate of US$10million per year for implementation of the national roadmap for accelerating reduction in MNC mortality; strengthen human resources for health by training 40 midwives a year for the next 4 years, including creating a school of midwifery and constructing a national referral hospital for women and children with 250 beds; and deploying health workers at health centres to ensure delivery of a minimum package of services. Chad also commits to pass a national human resources for health policy; increase contraception prevalence to 15%; ensure 50% of the births are assisted by a skilled birth attendant; and increase coverage of PMTCT from 7% to 80%, and pediatric HIV coverage from 9% to 80%.
Comoros (May 2011) Comoros commits to increase health sector spending to 14% of budget by 2014; ensure universal coverage for PMTCT by 2015; reduce underweight children from 25% to 10%; increase contraception prevalence rate from 13% to 20%; and the births that take place in health facilities from 75% to 85%. Comoros will also accelerate the implementation existing national policies including the national plan for reproductive health commodity security, the strategic plan for human resources for health, and the roadmap for accelerating reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality.
Congo (September 2010) Congo commits to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity by 20% by 2015 including obstetric fistula, by introducing free obstetric care, including free access to caesarean sections. Congo will also establish a new observatory to investigate deaths linked to pregnancy; and will support women’s empowerment by passing a law to ensure equal representation of Congolese women in political, elected and administrative positions.
Côte d'Ivoire (September 2011) Côte d'Ivoire commits to ensure the provision of free health services for all pregnant women during delivery, including free caesarian-sections, for women affected by obstetric fistula, and for children under 5. Côte d'Ivoire also commits to rehabilitate maternity centres, provide insecticide- treated mosquito nets for women and children under 5; to strengthen the integrated management of childhood illnesses programmes; and to integrate HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health, and community involvement in health management, including training health workers to ensure the provision of family planning at the community level.
Democratic Republic of Congo (September 2010)
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will develop a national health policy aimed to strengthen health systems, and will allocate more funds from the Highly Indebted Poor Country program to the health sector. DRC will increase the proportion of deliveries assisted by a skilled birth attendant to 80%, and increase emergency obstetric care and the use of contraception. The government will increase to 70% the number of children under 12 months who are fully immunized; ensure that up to 80% of children under 5 and pregnant women use ITNs; and provide AVRs to 20,000 more people living with HIV/AIDS.
Djibouti (September 2011) Djibouti commits to increase the health budget from 14% to 15%. In terms of service delivery, the Government will ensure that all pregnant women will have access to skilled personnel during childbirth. For this purpose, the Government will increase the number of trained midwives and nurses and will increase access to emergency obstetric care services nationally to 80%. A package of integrated emergency obstetric and newborn care and reproductive health will also be delivered in health services. This will be achieved by ensuring that all health centers are upgraded to deliver a package of emergency obstetric and newborn care and reproductive health services by upgrading them and ensuring that appropriate staff are posted and maintained in those centers. Contraceptive prevalence will be increased to 70%. The mobile health services will be extended to cover all areas of the country and will adopt a mix of outreach services, home visits and community based interventions. The government commits to implement Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses in all health centers. Vaccine coverage will be 100%. Malnutrition will be addressed through a comprehensive multi-sectoral package in order to reduce the prevalence of stunting to 20% and that of wasting to 10%. Djibouti commits to decrease the HIV/AIDS prevalence to 1.8% in 2015 and to ensure that all pregnant HIV-positive women receive antiretrovirals.
Ethiopia (September 2010) Ethiopia will increase the number of midwives from 2050 to 8635; increase the proportion of births attended by a skilled professional from 18% to 60%; and provide emergency obstetric care to all women at all health centres and hospitals. Ethiopia will also increase the proportion of children immunized against measles to 90%, and provide access to prevention, care and support and treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it, by 2015. As a result, the government expects a decrease in the maternal mortality ratio from 590 to 267, and under-five morality from 101 to 68 (per 100,000) by 2015.
Gambia (September 2011) The Gambia commits to increase the health budget to 15% of the national budget by the year 2015; and to implement its existing free maternal and child health care policy, ensuring universal coverage of high quality emergency maternal, neonatal and child health services. Special attention will be accorded to rural and hard-to-reach areas. Efforts will be intensified to increase the proportion of births attended by skilled professionals to 64.5%, ensure reproductive health commodities security, scale up free Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) services to all reproductive health clinics and ensure universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care
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and support services, including social protection for women, orphans and vulnerable children. Furthermore, The Gambia will continue to maintain the high immunization coverage for all antigens at 80% and above at regional levels, and 90% and above at national levels, while seeking to increase access of all children, particularly in the most vulnerable communities, to high impact and cost-effective interventions that address the main killers of children under five.
Ghana (September 2010) Ghana will increase its funding for health to at least 15% of the national budget by 2015. Ghana will also strengthen its free maternal health care policy, ensure 95% of pregnant women are reached with comprehensive PMTCT service and ensure security for family planning commodities. Ghana will further improve child health by increasing the proportion of fully immunized children to 85% and the proportion of children under-five and pregnant women sleeping under insecticide- treated nets to 85%.
Guinea (May 2011) Guinea commits to establish a budget line for reproductive health commodities; ensure access to free prenatal and obstetric care, both basic and emergency; ensure provision of newborn care in 2 national hospitals, 7 regional hospitals, 26 district hospitals, and 5 municipality medical centres; and introduce curriculum on integrated prevention and care of new born and childhood illnesses in health training institutes. Guinea also commits to secure 10 life-saving essential medications in at least 36 facilities providing basic obstetric care and 9 structures with comprehensive obstetric care by 2012; ensure at least three contraception methods in all the 406 centres of health in the public sector by December 2012; and include PMTCT in 150 health facilities.
Guinea-Bissau (September 2011) Guinea-Bissau commits to increase financial spending from 10% to 14% by 2015 and to implement the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA); to ensure accessible comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care in all regions, and to provide around-the-clock referrals. Guinea-Bissau also commits to ensure that each health center has access to basic Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC), including strengthening the technical capacity of 95% of the EmOC facilities; increasing the proportion of women giving birth in health facilities from 35% to 60%; ensuring that 75% of the pregnant women are covered by health mutual funds, and that 90% of the most vulnerable are covered by state funds. In addition, Guinea-Bissau also commits to reduce the unmet need for family planning to 10% and to increase contraceptive prevalence from 10% to 20%; to increase pre-natal consultations to 70%, postnatal consultations to 30%, and to reduce the proportion of underweight children from 24% to 10%; and to integrate Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission in 90% of the maternity care centers.
Guyana (September 2011)
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Guyana commits to improve the contraceptive prevalence rate from 34.5% to above 60% by increasing the method-mix at national and regional levels, including by promoting long-term methods and emergency contraceptives; and further integrating family planning in community- based activities, as well as gender-based violence and teen mothers initiatives. Guyana also commits to increase Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) to 100%, including by strengthening referral and transportation in Basic EmONC facilities and improving the interconnectedness of maternal health facilities to ensure access to EmONC.
Haiti (September 2010) Haiti will create a financial mechanism to ensure free maternal, newborn and child health services, and develop a plan for human resources in health by 2015. Haiti will also provide emergency obstetric care in 108 health institutions constructing, rehabilitating or equipping facilities as necessary. Haiti will further reduce unmet need for family planning from 38% to 10% by improving commodity security and making services more youth-friendly.
Kenya (September 2010) Kenya will recruit and deploy an additional 20,000 primary care health workers; establish and operationalize 210 primary health facility centres of excellence to provide maternal and child health services to an additional 1.5 million women and 1.5 million children; and will expand community health care, and decentralize resources.
Kyrgyzstan (May 2011) The Government of Kyrgyzstan commits to ensure that 100% of the population of reproductive age have choice and access to modern contraception with at least 3 modern methods of family planning ; 100% free medical care for pregnant women and under-fives; ensure at least 80% of births take place at a health facilities and 90% of health facilities have access to centralized water supply system. Kyrgyzstan will ensure that 95% of health facilities with antenatal services provide both HIV testing PMTCT; 35% family medicine centers provide the standard package of youth-friendly health services; and that70% of children receive evidence-based services within integrated management of childhood illness.
Lao People's Democratic Republic (May 2011) The Lao People's Democratic Republic commits to provide free deliveries in order to ensure access to the most vulnerable; produce 1500 new midwives by 2015 by upgrading existing staff and training and recruiting new staff; and increase immunization from 67% to 90% by 2015. Lao PDR will also increase the proportion of couples with access to modern contraception and the proportion of births attended by a skilled attendant.
Lesotho (September 2011)
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The Government of Lesotho is committed to meeting the Abuja Declaration Target of 15% expenditure for health, compared to the current 14% expenditure. The Government abolished user fees for all the health services at Health Centre level, while it has standardized user fees at hospital-level. The country has developed the National Health Sector Policy and its Strategic Plan which puts women and children at the centre. The National Reproductive Health Policy and its Strategic Plan also focus on women and children. These documents have been disseminated and their implementation is closely monitored. The Reproductive Health Commodity Security Strategy is in place and ensures that 90% of the women and men in the reproductive age group have access to commodities. The Lesotho Expanded Programme on Immunization Policy has been disseminated in 2010, focusing on under-five children. The Infant and Young Child Feeding Policy focuses on nutrition of children.
Liberia (September 2010) Liberia will increase health spending from 4% to 10% of the national budget and will ensure that by 2015 there are double the number of midwives trained and deployed than were in the health sector in 2006. Liberia will provide free universal access to health services including family planning and increasing the proportion of health care clinics providing emergency obstetric care services from 33% to 50%. Liberia will increase the proportion of immunized children to 80%, and address social determinants of ill-health through increasing girl’s education, and the mainstreaming of gender issues in national development.
Madagascar (May 2011) By 2015, Madagascar commits to increase health spending to at least 12%; ensure universal coverage for emergency obstetric care in all public health facilities; increase births assisted by skilled attendants from 44% to 75%; and double from 35% the percentage of births in health facilities. Madagascar will also address teenage pregnancy by making 50% of primary health care facilities youth-friendly; reduce from 19% to 9.5% the unmet need of contraception by strengthening commodity security; increase tetanus vaccination for pregnant women from 57% to 80%; and institute maternal death audits.
Malawi (September 2010) Malawi will strengthen human resources for health, including accelerating training and recruitment of health professionals to fill all available positions in the health sector; expand infrastructures for maternal, newborn and child health; increase basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care coverage to reach World Health Organization standards; and provide free care through partnerships with private institutions.
Mali (September 2010) Mali commits to create a free medical assistance fund by 2015 and to reinforce existing solidarity and mutual funds for health, and extend the coverage of a minimum package of health interventions. Mali will implement a national strategic plan for improving the reproductive health of adolescents; and will strengthen emergency obstetric care, introducing free caesarean and
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fistula services, also by 2015. Mali will promote improvements in child health through free vitamin A supplements, and increased screening for and management of malnutrition, and through the extension of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Programme. Mali will also distribute free insecticide-treated bed-nets to women making second ante-natal visits, and remove taxes on other ITNs.
Mauritania (September 2011) Mauritania commits to increasing expenditure on health to 15% by 2015, and including a budget line on reproductive health commodities with a focus on contraceptives; to increase contraception prevalence from 9% to 15%, constructing 3 more schools of public health, increasing access to Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in all regional and national hospitals; to increase the proportion of births assisted by skilled personnel from 61% to 75%; and increasing the proportion of health centers offering PMTCT services to 75%. Mauritania further commits to increase proportion of vaccinated children, institute in all districts a program of integrated management of childhood illnesses, and improve the management of human resources including providing incentives for staff to work in isolated areas.
Mozambique (September 2010) Mozambique commits to increase the percentage of children immunized aged under 1, from 69 to 90 percent by 2012 and to increase the number of HIV+ children receiving ARTs from 11, 900 to 31,000 by 2012. Mozambique will also increase contraceptive prevalence from 24 to 34 % by 2015 and will increase institutional deliveries from a level of 49% to 66% by 2015. Mozambique also commits to establish a centre for the treatment of obstetric fistula in each province by 2015.
Myanmar (May 2011) Myanmar commits to ensure 80% ante-natal care coverage; 80% of births attended by a skilled attendant; 70% access to emergency obstetric care; and 80% coverage for PMTCT as well as its integration with MCH. Myanmar will also ensure universal coverage for the expanded immunization; increase the proportion of newborn who receive essential newborn care at least two times within first week of life by 80%; increase contraception prevalence to 50%; reduce unmet need for contraception to under 10%; improve ratio of midwife to population from 1/5000 to 1/4000; and develop a new human resources for health plan for 2012-2015.
Nepal (September 2010) Nepal commits to recruit, train and deploy 10,000 additional skilled birth attendants; fund free maternal health services among hard-to-reach populations; and will ensure at least 70% of primary health care centres offer emergency obstetric care. Nepal will also double coverage of PMTCT; reduce unmet need for family planning to 18%, including by making family planning services more adolescent friendly and encouraging public-private partnerships to raise awareness and increase access and utilization. Nepal will work to improve child health and nutrition through rolling out the Community Based Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses Programme from 27 districts to all 75 districts in the country; maintaining de-worming and micro-
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nutrient supplementation coverage at over 90%; and implementing effective nutrition interventions (using innovative programs such as cash transfers to pregnant and lactating women and other community based interventions).
Niger (September 2010) Niger commits to increase health spending from 8.1% to 15% by 2015, with free care for maternal and child heath, including obstetric complications management and family planning. Niger will train 1000 providers on handling adolescent reproductive health issues, and to address domestic violence and female genital mutilation (FGM). Niger will reduce the fertility rate from 3.3% to 2.5% through training 1500 providers of family planning, and creating 2120 new contraception distribution sites. Niger will further equip 2700 health centres to support reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education, and ensure that at least 60% of births are attended by a skilled professional. Niger will additionally introduce new policies that support the health of women and children, including legislation to make the legal age of marriage 18 years and to improve female literacy from 28.9% in 2002 to 88% in 2013.
Nigeria (September 2010) Nigeria endorses the Secretary General’s Strategy on women’s and children’s health, and affirms that the initiatives is in full alignment to our existing country-led efforts through the National Health Plan and strategies targeted for implementation for the period 2010 – 2015, with a focus on the MDGs in the first instance and the national Vision 20 – 2020. In this regard, Nigeria is committed to fully funding its health program at $31.63 per capita through increasing budgetary allocation to as much as 15% from an average of 5% by the Federal, States and Local Government Areas by 2015. This will include financing from the proposed 2% of the Consolidated Federal Revenue Capital to be provided in the National Health Bill targeted at pro-poor women’s and children’s health services. Nigeria will work towards the integration of services for maternal, newborn and child Health, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as well as strengthening Health Management Information Systems. To reinforce the 2488 Midwives recently deployed to local health facilities nationwide, Nigeria will introduce a policy to increase the number of core services providers including Community Health Extension Workers and midwives, with a focus on deploying more skilled health staff in rural areas.
Papua New Guinea (May 2011) Papua New Guinea commits to improve midwifery education and register 500 new midwives by 2015; increase number of obstetricians from 17 in 2011 to 40 in 2020; improve access to drugs and equipment necessary for maternal newborn and child health; introduce maternal health audits in all districts; and develop comprehensive plans to improve existing health services in all four regions of the country by 2015.
Rwanda (September 2010) Rwanda commits to increasing heath sector spending from 10.9% to 15% by 2012; reducing maternal mortality from 750 per 100,000 live births to 268 per 100,000 live births by 2015 and
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to halve neonatal mortality among women who deliver in a health facility by training five times more midwives (increasing the ratio from 1/100,000 to 1/20,000). Rwanda will reduce the proportion of children with chronic malnutrition (stunting) from 45% to 24.5% through promoting good nutrition practices, and will increase the proportion of health facilities with electricity and water to 100%. Sao Tome and Principe (May 2011) Sao Tome and Principe commits to increase the percentage of the general budget for health from 10% to 15% in 2012; increase the ratio of births attended by a qualified health personnel from 87.5% to 95%; reduce the percentage of inadequate family planning service delivery from 37% to 15%; increase the geographic coverage of PMTCT services from 23% to 95%; increase the percentage of pregnant women receiving ARVs from prenatal centres from 29% to 95%; and increase the prevalence of contraception from 33.7% to 50%.
Senegal (May 2011) Senegal commits to increasing its national health spending from 10% of the budget currently to 15% by 2015. It also proposes to increase the budget allocated to MNCH by 50% by 2015. The country commits to improving coordination of MNCH initiatives by creating a national Directorate for MNCH, reinstating the national committee in charge of the implementation of the multi- sectoral roadmap for the reduction of maternal and child mortality and to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of national strategies targeting a reduction of maternal mortality. Through these efforts the government hopes to offer a full range of high impact MNCH interventions in 90% of health centers, increase the proportion of assisted deliveries from 51% to 80% by increasing recruitment of state midwives and nurses and increasing contraceptive prevalence rate from 10% to 45%, among others.
Sierra Leone (September 2010) Sierra Leone will increase access to health facilities by pregnant women, newborns and children under five by 40% through the removal of user fees, effective from April 27 2010. Sierra Leone will also develop a Health Compact to align development partners around a single country-led national health strategy and will ensure that all teachers engage in continuous professional development in health.
South Sudan (September 2011) The Republic of South Sudan commits to increase the percentage of government budget allocation to the Ministry of Health from 4.2% to 10% by 2015; to increase the proportion of women delivering with skilled birth attendants from 10%- 45%, through the construction of 160 Basic Emergency Obstetric Care facilities by 2015 and training of 1,000 enrolled/registered midwives by 2015; and to establish 6 accredited midwifery schools or training institutions/colleges; increase the contraceptive prevalence rate from 3.7% to 20%, and increase the percentage of health facilities without stock-out of essential drugs from 40% to 100%. South Sudan also commits to reduce the prevalence of underweight among children under five from 30% to 20%; increase the percentage of fully-immunized children from 1.8% to 50%; and increase the
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percentage of under-fives sleeping under bed nets from 25% to 70%. Finally, South Sudan will develop and implement a range of national policies that will strengthen its response to women and children's health, including policies on national family planning, on provision of free reproductive health services, especially Emergency Obstetric care services, on decentralization of budgeting, planning, management of health services, and on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Sri Lanka (September 2011) Sri Lanka will empower the health sector through capacity building and leadership in information and communication technology. More specifically, the Government will provide education, training, and assessment to 100,000 members of the work force using a royalty-free open source based technology platform developed by Intel. Sri Lanka will provide training and will certify the 100,000 members of the workforce on information and communication technology by 2015 and also implement a basic electronic health record for children in 5,000 schools that would enable the health sector planners to launch prioritized health programmes by 2015.
Sudan (September 2011) Sudan commits to increase the total health sector expenditure from 6.2% in 2008 to 15% by 2015. Sudan commits to guarantee immediately free universal access to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services including Immunization, Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI), Nutrition, Antenatal Care (ANC), delivery care, post-natal care, and child spacing services to target all women and children. Sudan also commits to train and employ at least 4,600 midwives focusing on states with the highest maternal mortality ratios and the lowest proportion of births attended by trained personnel. This will increase the percentage of births attended by trained personnel from 72.5% to 90%, increase quality universal access to Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care, and advocate for the elimination of harmful traditional practices like early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.
Tajikistan (May 2011) Tajikistan commits to ensure that by 2015, 85% of midwives are trained in provision of emergency obstetric care; at least 85% of maternity facilities apply the clinical protocols approved by the ministry of health; youth friendly health services are expanded from pilot to nationwide implementation; and 50% of the needs of women of reproductive age in modern contraceptives are covered from the budget. Tajikistan will also develop an accreditation policy for maternity institutions and ensure that 90% of maternity hospitals are certified.
Tanzania (September 2010) Tanzania will increase health sector spending from 12% to 15% of the national budget by 2015. Tanzania will increase the annual enrollment in health training institutions from 5000 to 10,000, and the graduate output from health training institutions from 3,000 to 7,000; simultaneously improving recruitment, deployment and retention through new and innovative schemes for performance related pay focusing on maternal and child health services. Tanzania will reinforce
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the implementation of the policy for provision of free reproductive health services and expand pre-payment schemes, increase the contraceptive prevalence rate from 28% to 60%; expand coverage of health facilities; and provide basic and comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn care. Tanzania will improve referral and communication systems, including radio call communications and mobile technology and will introduce new, innovative, low cost ambulances. Tanzania will increase the proportion of Children fully immunized from 86% to 95%, extend PMTCT to all RMNCH services; and secure 80% coverage of long lasting insecticide treated nets for children under five and pregnant women. Tanzania will aim to increase the proportion of children who are exclusively breast fed from 41% to 80%.
Togo (May 2011) Togo commits to ensure 95% coverage of vaccination for children under 5, and to implement the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA).
Uganda (September 2011) Uganda commits to ensure that comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) services in hospitals increase from 70% to 100% and in health centers from 17% to 50%; and to ensure that basic EmONC services are available in all health centers; and will ensure that skilled providers are available in hard to reach/hard to serve areas. Uganda also commits to reduce the unmet need for family planning from 40% to 20%; increase focused Antenatal Care from 42% to 75%, with special emphasis on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) and treatment of HIV; and ensure that at least 80% of under 5 children with diarrhea, pneumonia or malaria have access to treatment; to access to oral rehydration salts and Zinc within 24 hours, to improve immunization coverage to 85%, and to introduce pneumococcal and human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines.
Uzbekistan (September 2011) Uzbekistan commits to ensure that 96% of children aged 6-59 months receive vitamin A twice a year by up to 2015; 100% coverage of pregnant women with HIV counseling; and testing and reduction of mother-to-child HIV transmission down to less than 2%. Uzbekistan also commits to improve quality of care provided to mothers and children by training 25,000 health workers up to 2015 on evidence-based modern technologies to provide reproductive health services, emergency obstetrical care, effective prenatal care, international criteria of live birth, basic care and resuscitation of newborns, breastfeeding and rational nutrition of children, integrated management of childhood illnesses in the primary healthcare and hospitals and child growth monitoring.
Viet Nam (May 2011) Viet Nam commits to increase rate of pregnant women with access to PMTCT services from 20% to 50%; increase the rate of people with disabilities who had access to RHC services from 20% to 50%; increase rate of pregnant women received antenatal care (at least three visits during 3 trimesters) from 80% to 85%; increase the rate of couples who received pre-marital counseling
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and health check from 20% to 50%;and the rate of women giving birth with trained health workers from 96% to 98%.
Yemen (September 2010) Yemen will enforce the ministerial decree to provide free contraceptives to all women of reproductive age, and free deliveries, and will endorse a safe motherhood law to minimize harmful practices. Yemen will expand Reproductive Health services to reach 85% of all health facilities, focusing expansion in rural areas, and increase by 20% the percentage of health facilities that provide basic and comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neo-Natal Care services. Yemen will increase security on essential drugs and contraceptives through improving the logistics management system, ensuring full cost coverage of reproductive health commodity security, maintaining the full cost coverage of routine vaccines and assuring financial sustainability of new vaccines according to GAVI’s co-financing policy.
Zambia (September 2010) Zambia commits to: increase national budgetary expenditure on health from 11% to 15% by 2015 with a focus on women and children’s health; and to strengthen access to family planning - increasing contraceptive prevalence from 33% to 58% in order to reduce unwanted pregnancies and abortions, especially among adolescent girls. Zambia will scale-up implementation of integrated community case management of common diseases for women and children, to bring health services closer to families and communities to ensure prompt care and treatment.
Zimbabwe (September 2010) Zimbabwe will increase health spending to 15% of the health budget or $20 per capita and establish a maternal, newborn and child survival fund by 2011 using the same approach as the successful Education Transition Fund (ETF) led by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture and administered by UNICEF. The fund has raised US$50 million in the first year for the ministry’s priorities, and contributed to donor coordination and harmonization. Zimbabwe will abolish user fees for health services for pregnant women and for children under the age of 5 years by the end of 2011; and will strengthen the Maternal and Newborn Mortality audit system - piloting a new system in two provinces in 2011 before expanding nationwide in 2012.
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Middle-income countries
(4 commitments, 5 stakeholders)
China (September 2010) China will continue to increase its domestic investment in women and children's health, through new policies and measures, and additional financing. New reforms now being implemented will provide basic health care insurance for all. There are also new measures which especially benefit rural women, including free breast and cervical cancer screening, hospital birth-delivery subsidies, and free folic acid supplements. Additional measures include free hepatitis B vaccination for all children under 15 years old, a national immunization program covering all children, and free services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus for all pregnant women. The government will also reimburse 90% of medical expenses for rural children who have congenital heart disease or leukaemia.
India (September 2010) India is spending over US $ 3.5 billion each year on health services, with substantial expenditure on services aimed towards women’s and children’s health. Currently, India is focusing on strengthening its efforts in the 264 districts that account for nearly 70% of all infant and maternal deaths. Between now and 2015, India will provide technical assistance to other countries and share its experience, and will support the creation of a platform for global knowledge management to oversee the dissemination of best practices.
Indonesia (September 2010) Indonesia will ensure all deliveries will be performed by skilled birth attendants by 2015. This universal access intervention is aimed at reducing the maternal mortality ratio from 228 per 100.000 live births in 2007 to 102 per 100.000 live births in 2015. In 2011, at least one and a half (1.5) million deliveries by poor women will be fully funded by the government. Central Government funding for health in 2011 will increase by USD 556 million compared to 2010. This fund will be available to support professional health personnel and to achieve quality health care and services in 552 hospitals, 8,898 health centres and 52,000 village health posts throughout Indonesia.
Mongolia (May 2011) Mongolia commits to implement a policy on increasing salaries of obstetricians, gynecologists and pediatricians by 50%; increase financial allocation to national immunization program; improve provision of micronutrients to children under 5; ensure reproductive health commodity security; and increase the number of health facilities for women and children, including the construction of a new Women’s and Children’s Health Centre in Ulaanbaatar.
Russia (September 2010)
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[Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20]
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High-income countries
(13 commitments, 16 stakeholders)
Australia (September 2010) [Committed to the US, UK, Australia and Gates Foundation’s Alliance: see commitment page 20] Australia supports the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health as a firm platform for putting the health needs of women and children back into the centre of the development agenda. Recognising the need for increased effort on women’s and children’s health, Australia will invest around US$1.5 billion (A$1.6 billion) over the five years to 2015 on interventions evidence shows will improve maternal and child health outcomes. These will include expanding access to family planning and vaccination services, and funding skilled health workers (including midwives), health facilities and supplies. Financial support committed in 2010 includes an additional US$79.5 million (A$85 million) for the Pacific and Papua New Guinea and US$131 million (A$140 million) for Eastern Africa. Australia’s strong focus on Indonesia, South Asia and effectively performing international organisations will also continue. [on current projections subject to annual budget processes]
Canada (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20] As Chair of the G8, Canada made maternal, newborn and child health a priority for the G8 Muskoka Summit in June 2010. At the Muskoka Summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper committed C$1.1billion in new and additional funding for women's and children's health as part of the Muskoka Initiative. Prime Minister Harper also confirmed renewal of existing resources of C$1.75 billion, meaning Canada will provide C$2.85 billion for MNCH by 2015. Canada will focus its efforts on improving the services and care needed to ensure healthy pregnancies and safe delivery, and placing a particular emphasis on meeting the nutritional needs of pregnant women, mothers, newborns and young children. Canada will work to increase access to the high-impact, cost-effective interventions that address the leading killers of children under the age of five. Canada will also commit an additional $540 million over three years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This is in addition to a total of $978.4 million that Canada has committed and disbursed to the Global Fund since 2002.
France (September 2010 & September 2011) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20] 2010: France announced 500 million euros for the period 2011-2015 to support the Muskoka initiative. Furthermore, France announces this week an increase by 20 % of its contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria over the period 2011-2013 (1.080 billion euros as compared to 900 million euros for the previous triennium). 2011: France made a substantial commitment to the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health in 2010, and during 2011 it has been greatly strengthened. France has allocated EUR 19
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million per year to the World Health Organisation, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women in support of their joint initiatives on women's and children's health. In addition, the increase of the French contribution to the GAVI Alliance for the period 2011-2015 amounts to EUR 100 million, and the increase of its contribution to UNAIDS amounts to EUR 60 million per year. 100% of the contribution to GAVI and 46% of the contribution to UNAIDS - a total of EUR 47 million per year - directly supports MDG4 and MDG5. Finally, France, through its international development agency, will allocate EUR 48 million per year towards national and multi-country projects to improve the development of health systems.
Germany (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20] Germany is developing a new initiative on Voluntary Family Planning with resources to be made available for family planning and reproductive health and rights as part of Germany’s ongoing annual commitment in the area of mother and child health of 300m euros per year and Germany’s commitment made in June at Muskoka of an additional 400m euros over the next five years.
Israel (September 2011) Israel supports the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health by placing women's and children's health issues at the heart of its international development agenda. In 2011, in line with its ongoing partnership with the Ghanaian authorities in Kumasi, Israel built a cane water supply system at the Komfo Anokye hospital valued at USD $50,000, in addition to supporting the training of health professionals working at the Mother and Baby units previously established by Israel, a training program valued at USD $70,000. In spring 2011, Israel completed the construction of an emergency and trauma unit and provided the operational medical equipment and specialized training for health professionals at the Hospital Justinien in Cap-Haitiën, Haiti, a project valued at USD $720,000. Over the course of this year and next, in an effort to provide quality diagnostic and emergency services for women and children, Israel will supply equipment for diagnostic services in Freetown, Sierra Leone; an emergency trauma unit in Kampala, Uganda; three mobile medical emergency units in Guatemala; and a diagnostic center in Vinice, Ukraine, for a total value of USD $1.3 million. Finally, this year Israel announced a USD $100,000 contribution to UNAIDS to conduct a qualitative assessment to better understand the gender- related socio-cultural factors which amplify the barriers faced by pregnant women with HIV.
Italy (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20]
Japan (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20] At the Plenary of the MDG Summit Japan’s Prime Minister will launch its new Global Health Policy, which places a special focus on maternal, newborn and child health and will commit to provide
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$ 5 billion in five years from 2011. Under this new Policy, Japan will support the Global Strategy by implementing and advocating a package model by the name of “EMBRACE”, which intends to ensure the continuum of care from pregnancy to post natal stage. Japan also reaffirms its financial commitment made at the G8 Muskoka Summit to provide up to an additional $500 million for maternal, newborn and child health in five years from 2011 will be fulfilled as part of today’s $5 billion commitment.
Netherlands (September 2010 & September 2011) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20] 2011: The Netherlands endorses the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, as the effort to ensure that women's and children's health issues have the priority they deserve in the 21st century. In 2011 the Netherlands' Parliament approved development policies focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights including HIV/AIDS, food security, water and security and governance issues. The Netherlands directly supports efforts to improve the health of women and children through our substantial core contributions to UNICEF, UNFPA and UNAIDS. In addition, the Netherlands has allocated EUR 29 million in 2011 to the Global Programme to enhance Reproductive Health Commodities Security and the Maternal Health Thematic Fund; EUR 55 million to the Global Fund to fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria; and will maintain its ongoing support to the GAVI Alliance for the period 2011-2015.
New Zealand (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20]
Norway (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20] Norway will increase its contribution to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 20% for the next 3 years, making a total contribution in 2011-13 of USD 225 million. This is in addition to the commitment made in June as part of the Muskoka initiative of USD $500 million for the period 2011-2020, partly subject to the annual budgetary process.
South Korea (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20]
Spain (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20]
Sweden (September 2010 & September 2011)
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2010: Sweden’s strong commitment to Women’s and Children’s health is clearly reflected in Sweden's policy for global development , in Sweden's international policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and in the Policy for Gender Equality and the Rights and Role of Women . In the bilateral development cooperation support is primarily given to the strengthening of national health and education systems with a focus on a broad SRHR approach. A range of funding and other mechanisms is used. Policy dialogue and strategic partnerships are essential to raise awareness and build capacity with regard to phenomena related to maternal and child health including controversial issues such as access to safe abortions. Globally Sweden supports the UN system (UNFPA including the UNFPA/ICM program to strengthen midwifery, UNICEF, UNESCO), global initiatives (GAVI, Education for all Fast Track Initiative, GFATM) and civil society (IPAS, IPPF, Men Engage network). To further strengthen the commitment a special effort on MDG5 has been developed . The ambition is to raise awareness and build capacity to improve maternal health at all levels of development cooperation. Sweden also endorses the G8 Muskoka Initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and has made a substantial allocation in the budget bill proposed to parliament for 2011 to further strengthen work to improve child health. 2011: Sweden has enhanced its commitment to the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health during 2011. Contributing to the achievement of the MDGs, especially MDGs 4 and 5, is one of the core focuses of Swedish development aid, which amounts to approximately 1% of its annual Gross Domestic Income. In 2011, Sweden has committed to allocate 500 million Swedish kroner to combat child mortality and maternal mortality and promote health, education and youth entrepreneurship. In addition the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation has announced that Swedish development aid has the ambition of helping save the lives of 250,000 children, as well as 50,000 women who otherwise would lose their lives due to complications arising from pregnancy or childbirth. Sweden will support, through bilateral development cooperation, efforts to strengthen national health and education systems, in order to generate better access to sexual and reproductive health. A range of different funding mechanisms are utilized and policy dialogues and external partnerships are essential to Sweden's assistance. Sweden will continue its support to UNFPA, UNICEF and UNESCO; global initiatives such as the GAVI Alliance (with $201 million for the period 2011-2015), the GFATM; and civil society (Ipas, IPPF, MenEngage Alliance). Sweden endorses the G8 Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health."
Switzerland (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20]
United Kingdom (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20] [Committed to the US, UK, Australia and Gates Foundation’s Alliance: see commitment page 20] The UK is currently re-orienting its aid programme to put women at the heart of its development efforts and is focusing rigorously on results, including a review of all bilateral and multilateral aid programmes to maximise impact on mothers and babies. The UK’s new Business Plan for Reproductive Maternal and Newborn Health will set out how the UK aims to increase efforts up to 2015 'to double the number of maternal, newborn and children's lives saved. It is anticipated that UK aid will save the lives of at least 50,000 women in pregnancy and childbirth, a quarter of
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a million newborn babies and enable 10 million couples to access modern methods of family planning over the next five years. To achieve this ambitious goal, the UK will double its annual support for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health by 2012, and sustain that level to 2015. The UK will provide an annual average of £740 million (US$1.1 billion) for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health from 2010 to 2015. This means that over this period the UK will spend an additional £2.1bn on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. This commitment adds an additional £1.6bn to the commitment of £490m the UK made for 2010 and 2011 at the Muskoka Summit.
United States (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20] [Committed to the US, UK, Australia and Gates Foundation’s Alliance: see commitment page 20] The commitments detailed in this document build on important recent efforts, notably President Obama’s Global Health Initiative (GHI), a $63 billion initiative to help partner countries save lives and achieve sustainable health outcomes. Through the GHI, the United States will scale up efforts and achieve significant results in maternal and child health and family planning. The GHI sets out ambitious targets for improving maternal and child health to inspire an intensive effort, and will: reduce maternal mortality by 30 percent across assisted countries; reduce mortality rates for children under 5 by 35 percent across assisted countries; reduce child under-nutrition by 30 percent across assisted food insecure countries, in conjunction with the President’s Feed the Future Initiative; double the number of at-risk babies born HIV-free, from a baseline of 240,000 babies of HIV-positive mothers born HIV-negative during the first five years of PEPFAR; and reach a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 35 percent across assisted countries.
US, UK, Australia and Gates Foundation (September 2010) The US, UK, Australia and Gates have formed a new alliance, to work together in partnership at the global level and with selected high-need countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to accelerate progress in reducing unintended pregnancies, reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, and addressing key elements of MDGs 4 and 5 where progress has been especially slow. The alliance will work to help 100 million more women satisfy their need for modern family planning by 2015. See US, UK, Australia and Gates press releases.
Muskoka Initiative (September 2010) In June 2010 at the G8 Muskoka Summit, partners to the Muskoka Initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health committed US$7.3 billion in new and additional funding for MNCH by 2015. It was anticipated that, subject to respective budgetary processes, the Muskoka Initiative would eventually mobilize more than US$10 billion. In June, G8 partners committed US$5 billion in new and additional funding by 2015. Together, the Governments of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain and Switzerland, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UN Foundation committed US$2.3 billion by 2015. According to WHO and World Bank estimates, the Muskoka Initiative will assist developing countries in preventing 1.3 million deaths of children under five years of age and 64,000 maternal deaths, and enable access to modern methods of family planning by an additional 12 million couples.
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Foundations
(17 commitments, 17 stakeholders)
A. K. Khan Healthcare Trust (September 2011) The A. K. Khan Healthcare Trust has committed to Every Woman Every Child to expand and replicate its collaborative program with the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston to provide cervical cancer screening, early detection, awareness-raising activities and treatment in underserved settings on a large scale throughout the country over the next five years. AKHT’s current program began in 2010, and more than 30,000 women are expected to be screened in the next year.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20] [Committed to the US, UK, Australia and Gates Foundation’s Alliance: see commitment page 20] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $1.5 billion over the next 5 years to improving women’s and children’s health. This includes investments to support maternal, neonatal and child health, family planning and nutrition programs in developing countries. This investment does not reflect the foundation’s grant making for vaccines, or for the prevention of pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria or HIV/AIDS—all of which are closely linked to child health.
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) (September 2010) The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) “Women First” commits $3.5 million and commits to raise an additional $6.5 million. In partnership with the Ministry of Health in Zambia, CIDRZ is creating a centre for treatment, research and training on women's health in Africa, including treatment for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, treating children living with AIDS and tuberculosis, and cervical cancer. Additionally the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health will include a pharmacy and community centre to teach women life and job skills. CIDRZ has received support from the Fisher Foundation of Detroit, ASHA and individual and small foundation donors to support this effort.
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) (September 2010) The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) commits to supporting the Global Strategy through new multi-year investments on a national scale prioritizing child survival, educational achievement, and nutrition and hunger issues through efforts in the deworming of schoolchildren, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, achievement in early childhood education, reduction of neonatal mortality and severe acute malnutrition.
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David and Lucile Packard Foundation (September 2010) The David and Lucile Packard Foundation commits $120 million over the next 4 years to ensure that family planning and reproductive health information and services are more accessible to all. It will support new funding initiatives that promote women’s leadership at global, regional, national and local levels to revitalize political will and build new momentum to support increased investment in reproductive health and improved reproductive health outcomes for couples in Bihar, India. The Foundation has also partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a new, Advance Family Planning, initiative that seeks to revitalize political and financial commitments in nine countries through African women leaders and their networks.
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (September 2011) The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation will leverage its programmatic expertise to advocate for the elimination of pediatric AIDS around the world. This includes advocacy for adoption and implementation of national policies that promote the use of more-effective ARV regimens for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the countries we work; programmatic support and training for capacity building and strengthening integrated health services; support of the new Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive; and renewed efforts to improve pediatric HIV diagnosis, treatment, support and research, including greater uptake of services.
EMpower (September 2010) EMpower commits $328,000 in 2011 to support new grants in India and Nigeria, EMpower will make grants to Jabala Research Organization (India), Navsarjan Trust (India), Nishtha (India), Vacha (India), Girls Power Initiative (Nigeria), and KIND (Nigeria).
Ford Foundation (September 2010) The Ford Foundation projects over $100 million in grants in its Sexuality and Reproductive Health programs over the next five years to strengthen sexual and reproductive health and rights through comprehensive sexuality education and an evidence-based public discourse -- supporting visionary people and organizations working to ensure that young people are empowered to have access to the information and services they need.
Geddes Group (September 2011) World-renowned photographer Anne Geddes is committed to raising public awareness of issues surrounding the dire need to improve the health and welfare of women and children around the world. In order to accomplish this goal, Anne will lend her voice to support the Every Woman Every Child effort by advocating for action at key events hosted by the United Nations and Every Woman Every Child partners. Anne will also work to engage new audiences at non-Every Woman Every Child events by integrating the goals of Every Woman Every Child into her overall
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messaging surrounding global maternal health and welfare. In order to inform and facilitate the spread of information, Anne will utilize the multiple platforms at her disposal including social media, interviews and press surrounding upcoming projects. She will also encourage her fans to support specific programs that are at work to improve the welfare of women and children, specifically in the developing world. Ultimately Anne will endeavor to lend her photographic talents to provide a voice to the Every Woman Every Child story. Anne, who has a history of charitable commitment, will work alongside the United Nations to find strategic ways to use this voice to raise awareness and to continue to motivate people around the world to make the health of women and children a top priority.
Global Fund for Women (September 2010) Global Fund for Women commits $2 million over the next 2 years towards advancing health and sexual and reproductive rights in over 40 countries in the Americas, Asia and Oceania, Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Grand Challenges Canada (September 2010) Grand Challenges Canada commits, with funding from the Government of Canada, to the launching of a grand challenge in maternal and child health.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (September 2010) In 2010 and 2011, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will invest approximately $30 million towards achieving MDG 5. The priorities of the Population and Reproductive Health area are to reduce maternal death and improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. The bulk of these investments are concentrated in India, Mexico, and Nigeria. In the area of maternal health, the Foundation supports interventions to reduce death from postpartum hemorrhage and eclampsia. MacArthur also provides resources to support sexuality education and youth-friendly services. In addition, the Foundation invests in reproductive health advocacy and research initiatives.
Medtronic Foundation (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: Medtronic Foundation commits to support key planning and advocacy activities on a global scale, to ensure that the UN General Assembly Special Session on Non-Communicable Diseases (UN Summit), taking place in September of 2011, is successful in catalyzing global efforts toward NCDs, especially with regard to the care and treatment of the most vulnerable populations including women and children. To do so, Medtronic will fund activities of the NCD Alliance and two of its federations (World Heart Federation and International Diabetes Federation), to ensure that they are able to: 1) Advocate for a strong, unified civil society NCD movement 2) Mobilize global public support to influence the UN Summit to adopt key outcomes; 3) Define a global plan for NCDs and share innovative solutions and best practice; 4) Make the business case for investing in NCDs; 5) Promote health systems & solutions for NCD prevention & treatment.""
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2011: The Medtronic Foundation is contributing over US $600,000 toward global efforts to control Rheumatic Fever (RF) and eliminate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD). Through coordinated, innovative partnerships with Medtronic Foundation's grantees – The Public Health Foundation of India, Rwanda Heart Foundation, Bienmoyo Foundation, University of Cape Town, World Heart Federation and WiRED, Medtronic Foundation will support efforts that span the continuum of care for RHD on the country, continent and global level. Over the short and long term, Medtronic Foundation will: •Support partners leading in-country RHD efforts, •Support establishment of regional RHD centers of excellence, •Promote the exchange of best practices among countries and support global advocacy efforts, •Identify and fund technology initiatives that will facilitate surveillance, awareness and education initiatives globally, •Support publications and white papers to bring attention to the needs of RHD, •Support the creation of a global repository for all information related to RHD, and •Fund the standardization of echo diagnosis for Rheumatic Fever/RHD Medtronic Foundation will work closely with the private sector and civil society to bring about a holistic approach to addressing this critical, yet often neglected, public health issue affecting mostly children."
Planet Wheeler Foundation (September 2010) Planet Wheeler Foundation will commit $5.6m towards a scientific study to determine whether the power of mass media can be harnessed to save children’s lives on an unprecedented scale. The project will be implemented in partnership with the Wellcome Trust. A model developed by Development Media International (DMI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) predicts that child mortality can be reduced by 10% to 20% in most developing countries simply by broadcasting radio and television messages on all key life-saving behaviours. If these impact and cost-effectiveness predictions could be proven to rigorous scientific standards, in a real-life setting and implemented in10 countries over 10 years, the model predicts some 2.2 million lives could be saved.
TY Danjuma Foundation (September 2010) The TY Danjuma Foundation commits $5 million over the next 5 years in Nigeria: in grants to women and children’s health initiatives under its Community Health Initiatives Programme; to support the strengthening of maternal health care centres, train hospital personnel, donate medical equipment and provide technical support to health centres in rural communities; to support the organisation of consultative meetings and capacity building training to strengthen the grantees and other partner organisations effectiveness in the area of maternal and child health; and to identify and forge collaborations with other philanthropic organisations working in similar areas of intervention.
UN Foundation (September 2010 & September 2011)
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[Committed to the Muskoka Initiative: see commitment page 20] [Committed with the United Nations Global Compact: see commitment page 33] 2010: The UN Foundation commits (with its partners) $400 million over the next 5 years in support of the Global Strategy (including $215 million committed in June 2010). Through campaigns and partnerships UNF’s commitment will help the UN address key global health priorities including childhood immunizations, malaria prevention, holistic health for adolescent girls, access to reproductive health supplies and services, clean cook-stoves, and improving maternal and other health outcomes through mobile technologies.
Women's Funding Network and the International Network of Women’s Funds (September 2010) The Women's Funding Network and the International Network of Women’s Funds jointly commits $7 million for the next year on behalf of 12 women’s funds that make health focused grants in high burden countries. The two networks will strengthen health systems for women and children through investments and grants in women-led solutions that address health and wellness as a part of a holistic approach to fostering communities, countries and nations that thrive. The Networks are committed to ensuring that up to 70 percent of grants made by women’s funds reflect a health component. The networks foundation partners include: African Women’s Development Fund, American Jewish World Service, Bangladesh Women’s Foundation, Mama Cash, Mary’s Pence, Nirnaya Trust, Spark,Tewa, The CIDRZ Foundation, Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Women Win, and World Young Women’s Christian Association.
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United Nations and multilateral organizations
(3 commitments, 7 stakeholders)
European Commission (September 2010) [Committed to the Muskoka Initiative as a G8 member: see commitment page 20. Also: The European Commission is a member of the G8. In June 2010 at the G8 Muskoka Summit, partners to the Muskoka Initiative for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health committed US$7.3 billion in new and additional funding for MNCH by 2015. The European Commission pledged additional funding of EUR 50 million or USD 70 million over three years (2011-2013).]
HRP (the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction) (January 2012) HRP (the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction), working with partners, commits to generate, synthesize, coordinate and implement a prioritized research agenda for improving reproductive, maternal and newborn health. It will establish a global network of academic and research institutions, to develop and implement a global workplan to deliver a coordinated research agenda that informs policy formulation and strengthens health systems. Key issues will include the following actions in the 49 countries identified in the UNSG's Strategy: •fostering collaboration within a global network and with partners to facilitate strong linkages between academic/research institutions and government ministries to generate and apply research that identifies needs and barriers and facilitates implementation of interventions necessary to improve reproductive, maternal and newborn health; •promoting uptake of research findings that inform policies and programmes, including in partnerships with the private sector; •strengthening of research capacity in low-income countries to improve access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health services; •identifying and promoting best practices for advancing sexual and reproductive health; •supporting the scaling up of evidence-based interventions to improve reproductive, maternal and child health; •defining and updating norms and standards and facilitating their integration to support service delivery; •fostering innovation and development of new technologies, implementation strategies and innovative financing mechanisms that will improve sexual and reproductive health and reduce inequities in accessing services. It will work with academic and research centres from the north and south to support countries to define and implement priority interventions to accelerate progress on women's and children's health.
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UNAIDS (September 2010) [Committed to the H5 commitment as a H5 member: see commitment page 27]
UNDP (January 2012) [Committed to the HRP commitment as a HRP member: see commitment page 26]
UNFPA (September 2010 & January 2012) [Committed to the H5 commitment as a H5 member: see commitment page 27] [Committed to the HRP commitment as a HRP member: see commitment page 26]
UNICEF (September 2010) [Committed to the H5 commitment as a H5 member: see commitment page 27]
WHO (September 2010 & January 2012) [Committed to the H5 commitment as a H5 member: see commitment page 27] [Committed to the HRP commitment as a HRP member: see commitment page 26]
World Bank (September 2010 & January 2012) [Committed to the H5 commitment as a H5 member: see commitment page 27] [Committed to the HRP commitment as a HRP member: see commitment page 26] The World Bank will focus on women’s and children’s health in 35 countries, particularly in East Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, which face challenges in achieving the MDGs because of high fertility and poor child and maternal nutrition and disease. This will expand the reach of the World Bank’s results-based programs by more than $600 million to scale up essential health and nutrition services and strengthen the underlying health systems which are essential to sustain better health results over the years. This is in addition to other World Bank commitments to help countries achieve the MDGs such as significantly increased financing for agriculture and education, which will also benefit women’s and children's health.
WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Bank (H5) (September 2010) WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Bank commit to mobilize political support for the Global Strategy in the 49 ’Lowest Income Countries’; increasing the speed of the downward trend in maternal and child mortality by strengthening country and regional technical capacity to implement commitments; advocating for equity-focused approaches that include universal
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access to an integrated essential package of health services for women and children; and to addressing the root causes of ill-health, in particular gender inequality. They further commit to promoting the critical engagement of other sectors such as education, gender, nutrition, water and sanitation, culture and human rights; strengthening ongoing inter-agency collaboration in order to optimize the advocacy for increased and sustained financial resources, as well as linking additional global resources to evidence-based country-driven interventions; and sustaining the momentum of the Global Strategy beyond 2015. See WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Bank.
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Global partnerships
(12 commitments, 12 stakeholders)
Countdown to Zero (September 2011) Through powerful synergies, Countdown to Zero – the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive – will make significant contributions to achieving the health-related and gender-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. Such synergies are all the more important in countries where HIV currently accounts for a significant proportion of all adult female and/or child mortality and the AIDS epidemic is impeding progress in reducing child mortality (MDG 4) and improving maternal health (MDG 5). To support the rapid acceleration of efforts to stop new HIV infections among children, significant new resources have been pledged. These include an additional US$75 million from the United States, US$40 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US$20 million from Chevron, and US$15 million from Johnson and Johnson. The African Development Bank is making up to US$5 million available and the Islamic Development Bank is considering proposals for a total of US$1.5 million. The Global Plan was led by a high-level task team co-chaired by Michel Sidibé of UNAIDS and Ambassador Eric Goosby of PEPFAR, and included Member States, communities of women living with HIV, civil society, the private sector and philanthropic foundations. It was launched In June 2011 at the UN High Level Meeting (HLM) on AIDS. The HLM also adopted the goals of eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015and reducing maternal deaths.
European Parliamentarians active in the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (September 2011) European Parliamentarians active in the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) commit to building political support for women and children's health and rights, and specifically sexual and reproductive health and rights, by holding governments to account for their financial commitments and speaking out for the millions of vulnerable girls around the world.
GAVI Alliance (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: The GAVI Alliance commits on behalf of GAVI and its partners to supporting the Global Strategy over the next 5 years. Through the power of innovation - vaccines, public-private partnership and financing mechanisms, GAVI will help the UN address key global health priorities, including leading childhood killers, pneumonia and diarrhoea, by increasing access to life-saving vaccines for children including new HPV vaccines against cervical cancer for girls in the world’s poorest countries. 2011: Through the power of innovation – vaccines, public-private partnership and financing mechanisms – GAVI made a commitment to Every Woman Every Child in 2010 to help the UN
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address key global health priorities, including leading childhood killers, pneumonia and diarrhoea, by increasing access to life-saving vaccines for children including new HPV vaccines against cervical cancer for girls in the world's poorest countries. Since the initial GAVI commitment in September 2010, the first ever replenishment conference was held. This resulted in an additional US $4.3 billion from public and private donors to support GAVI's new vaccines and health systems strengthening programs and this funding will be utilized in furtherance of the very same goals articulated in Every Woman Every Child. GAVI also has created a new finance leveraging mechanism, the Matching Fund, that forges partnerships between public, governmental commitments to GAVI and private corporations whose business clients and employees may also commit their support. Last June, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Government responded to the Matching Fund opportunity by confirming over US $130 million in challenge grants to GAVI, which can be matched by new business and philanthropic commitments – an effort that has already secured new resources from the ""la Caixa"" Foundation, JP Morgan, Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) and Anglo American.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: The Global Fund, a major international channel for development assistance for health, is contributing to the improvement of maternal and child health through its support of a range of HIV, TB and malaria interventions for women and children across the continuum of care, The Global Fund is committed to intensifying its contributions to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and will continue to augment its investments in order to accelerate progress toward the health related MDGs in general and MNCH in particular. To date, The Global Fund has provided direct support to MDGs 4 and 5 with contributions of at least US$ 4.4 billion, and this figure is expected to increase substantially in the 2011-2013 period subject to the outcome of the Global Fund's upcoming replenishment conference and Board discussion on deeper involvement in MCH. 2011: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is fully committed to continue supporting comprehensive programs that will promote the health of women and children. AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria account for nearly 20 percent of total deaths of women and children in resource poor countries. Through its investments in AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and Health Systems Strengthening, the Global Fund already has had a substantial impact on efforts to reduce child mortality (MDG 4) and to improve maternal health (MDG 5). The Global Fund supports a range of high-impact HIV, TB and malaria interventions for women and children across the continuum of pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth and child care and has substantially contributed to the scale-up of essential services for these populations. It is estimated that 32% of total Global Fund disbursements support services for women and children. In addition, another 12% of the total disbursements contribute to MDG 4-5 through health system strengthening actions. Following its replenishment in 2010 under the leadership of Secretary General Ban Ki- moon the Global Fund expects to disburse at least USD 11 billion over the years 2011-2013 of which USD 3.5 – 4.8 billion should benefit directly the health of women and children.
Global Health Workforce Alliance (September 2011) The Global Health Workforce Alliance pledges to keep women and children at the heart of its work. Analysing the impact of increased health workforce action on the areas of maternal, newborn and child health will be a key indicator for progress. The Alliance firmly commits to
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continue advocating for action to address the health workforce crisis -- and thereby improve the health of women and children -- at the highest political levels and across our vast network of members and partners. GHWA pledges to ensure a better health workforce availability and capacity to address reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) needs in selected human resources for health (HRH) priority countries through a combination of advocacy and knowledge brokering activities at global and regional levels and the provision of direct catalytic support and targeted capacity building activities in selected countries, through its Country Coordination and Facilitation (CCF) approach.
Global Polio Eradication Initiative (September 2011) The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) commits to supporting the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. Spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, the GPEI has reduced the incidence of polio by 99% worldwide since its 1988 launch. The GPEI commits to optimizing its 70-country, 3,300-person infrastructure to intensify efforts to finally eradicate this paralytic childhood disease and to do so in a way that also supports broader maternal and child health objectives through opportunistic, value-added health interventions for mothers and children that range from complementary interventions, such as distribution of vitamin A drops and de-worming tablets during polio campaigns, to community micro-planning initiatives, to integrated disease surveillance activities.
Inter-Parliamentary Union (September 2011) The Inter-Parliamentary Union is mobilizing support for the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health within the world parliamentary community. It has launched a global parliamentary dialogue that will culminate in April 2012 with a resolution recommending parliamentary action in support of women's and children's health. The resolution will contain a catalogue of measures that parliaments can take to improve women's and children's health significantly by, for example, allocating adequate funding, revising national health policies and overseeing improved service delivery. The IPU is also providing targeted assistance to strengthen parliament's legislative and oversight functions in countries where women and children do not have equitable access to essential health services. IPU's support for the Global Strategy aims at enhancing access to and accountability for improved health services for women and children.
Organization of the Islamic Conference (September 2011) The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has taken action to meet MDGs 4 and 5 through advocacy, and its active support of health training institutions and programmes, and health delivery in the most challenging settings. The General Secretariat and relevant OIC institutions are actively engaged through the OIC-US Cooperation Framework on Mother and Child Health projects in Bangladesh and Mali; the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries Health Programme; and the Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation. OIC provides support to health professional training through the nursing diploma and bachelors degree programme housed at the International Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) and a programme in medicine and nursing held at the International Islamic
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University Malaysia (IIUM). The IUIU has also established a nursing school to train Ugandan and East African country nurses. The OIC will aim, in collaboration with partners, to support the operation of field hospitals in conflict areas around the world. OIC will continue is support to the Global Fund to Fight against HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria, through fund raising and religious fatwa efforts.
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (September 2011) The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) pledges to be an effective catalyst for transforming into action the commitments made to advance the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. To do so, PMNCH's 400+ members commit to enable its seven constituency groups (government, donor/foundation, UN/multilateral, private sector, NGO, health care professional association, and academic and research training) to: •uphold shared principles for advocacy, action and accountability, including a core set of indicators integrated into country monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, so all partners are mutually accountable for the commitments and results agreed to in the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health; •broker multi-stakeholder processes to ensure inclusiveness and participation, and harmonization of existing efforts to ensure complementarity between partners' work; •play a central role in the operational workplan of the Every Woman Every Child effort, including specific responsibilities for advocacy aligned with Global Strategy goals, mobilizing new commitments and promoting implementation of existing commitments; •play a key role in the workplan of the Commission for Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, including working closely with the independent Expert Review Group. PMNCH will advocate for key findings and recommendations of the Commission and contribute to the accountability process through the publication of the 2011 PMNCH report on Global Strategy commitments; and •monitor and report regularly on progress towards this commitment.
Stop TB Partnership (September 2011) The Stop TB Partnership commits to advocating and mobilizing political support for the Every Woman Every Child effort. Reducing illness and deaths from tuberculosis (TB) is essential to improving maternal and child health. In many low- and middle-income countries women and children, like other vulnerable groups, lack access to accurate diagnosis and high-quality treatment of TB. Over the next five years at least 3 million women and half a million children will die from TB, even though it is a curable illness. The Partnership will accelerate the downward trend in maternal and child mortality by advocating for improved access to TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment, especially in pregnant women; mothers; women and children living with HIV; and those whose vulnerability to TB is heightened by poverty or social isolation. Stop TB Partners will ensure there is a special focus on saving the lives of women as they implement the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the fight towards Elimination and the Partnership's initiative to save a million lives among people living with HIV by preventing and treating TB by 2015.
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The Elders (September 2011) The Elders are pleased to contribute to the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and the Every Woman Every Child effort by committing to establish Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. Girls Not Brides will bring together civil society organisations working to end child marriage. It will enable them to jointly raise awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage at the local, national and international levels; to learn from each other and develop better programs to address the practice; and to mobilise all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage. Girls Not Brides will amplify the voices of girls at risk of child marriage and will support girls who are or have been married, all over the world. Girls Not Brides will defend the rights of girls to health and education and the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Foundation (September 2011) The United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Foundation have partnered to support the Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and will launch an Every Woman Every Child Task Force within the Global Compact LEAD. The Every Woman Every Child Task Force is being created to focus on new and effective private sector engagements to support progress toward Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 (related to children's and women's health, respectively). The Task Force will be a dynamic and proactive leadership forum for collaboratively leveraging the private sector's strengths. The aim is to develop collaborations through the exploration of holistic, cross-cutting and cross-industry initiatives resulting in integrated solutions for global women's and children's health challenges.
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34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund (September 2011) As always, 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund will continue to urge grassroots support (with one dollar or more) for the United Nations Population Fund both in the USA and abroad. UNFPA is at the very core of MDGs 3, 4, and 5 and thus at the very core of the Global Strategy. The ultimate vision of 34 Million Friends is to educate US citizens and the world at large about the centrality of gender equality in all realms but particularly in the areas of education and health to any hope for people and the planet. Between now and November 15, co- founder Jane Roberts will be giving over 20 talks on the subject of "Women Population and the Millennium Development Goals" to university and civic groups. This campaign has garnered over US $4.2 million and 34 Million Friends send a check to UNFPA every quarter.
Action for Global Health (September 2011) In collaboration with other networks and organisations, Action for Global Health (AfGH) commits to track the amount of Official Development Assistance that is allocated to health, including maternal and child health, by European donors. AfGH will advocate for more and better aid to the health sector to increase universal access to healthcare, particularly for women, girls and children, who face key barriers in achieving their sexual and reproductive health and rights and the right to health because of user fees, a shortage of health workers and reproductive health supplies, and a lack of access to comprehensive sexual education or an enabling environment.
Africa MNCH Coalition (September 2011) The Africa MNCH Coalition commits to innovative and targeted advocacy over the next four years towards: improved domestic resources, budgeting and policy; political commitments, monitoring, accountability; and innovative partnerships. Advocacy will focus on both the health sector and on social determinant sectors which impact strongly on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), but which are not covered by health sector budgeting and policy. These include clean water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and food security, gender equality, and improved civil registration. The Africa MNCH Coalition also commits to strengthening advocacy for specific proven interventions such as immunization and human resources for health. The Africa MNCH Coalition further commits that all our advocacy efforts will include the millions of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, especially vulnerable women and children, whose plight is a blight on the progress of the African continent. This new approach emphasizing improved policy and budgeting in key social determinant sectors is based on the landmark August 2011 Africa Integrated MNCH Advocacy Strategy, developed with the African Union Commission and a cross-section of partners. The Strategy integrates cross cutting- issues impacting MNCH, and importantly includes both alignment of the Global Strategy for Women and Children's Health with African MNCH Frameworks for more effective and integrated implementation at continental and country-level, and promotion of African ownership and accountability.
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African Medical and Research Foundation (September 2011) The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), in partnership with its donors and sponsors, will be investing an additional US $20 million per year in maternal and child health programmes, in 20 countries in Africa, including the training of 600 new midwives annually, retraining of 5,000 existing midwives to update their skills in saving lives of mothers and newborns, and up to 10,000 community health workers to help families provide care to mothers and children at home, and link effectively with health facilities when needed. This new commitment also includes considerable expansion of service delivery in direct community interventions. All this will enable AMREF to reach an additional 0.5 million women of reproductive age and 1.5 million children with health-enhancing interventions that will contribute to progress towards MDGs 4 and 5.
Akaa Project, Inc (September 2011) The Akaa Project, Inc, active in the community of Akaa in the Yilo Kobo district of the Eastern region of Ghana, commits that by 2015, an international collaborative model for improving maternal, infant and child morbidity and mortality will be in place, with preventative efforts and improved health care delivery aimed toward reducing illness, preventing malnutrition and stunted growth. Teaching will reinforce health care protocols by the World Health Organization. The community will soon be drilling of a bore hole to minimize parasitic infection, reducing malnutrition and a host of other illnesses. Families within Akaa and its greater community will have access to high quality health care services by qualified health care providers or by capable health care workers trained to provide excellent care. High level midwifery skills will be available for prenatal care and to avert preventable complications. This model will require the active involvement of academic and health care institutions globally. Clinical experiences and mentorships will offer students experience in meeting the health care needs of mothers, infants and children. Efforts will be made to offer adolescent females academic and job opportunities to prevent risky lifestyles. Since this area is challenged by HIV infection, major efforts will be made toward preventing transmission, alleviating stigma, developing widespread screening and offering anti-retrovirals to forestall disease and enhance wellbeing. Also, by 2015, the majority of sexually active community members will have access to barrier methods of contraception. Funding sources for the above outcomes will be thoroughly explored.
American Academy of Pediatrics (September 2011) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a US-based not-for-profit membership organization of 62,000 pediatricians, and pediatric medical and surgical specialists. The AAP is dedicated to the health of all children, and has a long-standing commitment to child survival programs and to helping achieve the MDGs. The AAP commitment to Every Woman Every Child is through the delivery of training and technical assistance and through scale-up of the Helping Babies Breathe® (HBB) program. HBB is designed to ensure child survival and prevent birth asphyxia by strengthening the skills of birth attendants through use of a high quality evidence-based zero/low literacy practical educational program which teaches birth attendants in MDG countries how to care for newborns at birth. HBB focuses on the "Golden Minute®," the first minute after birth, during which time most babies with asphyxia will respond to simple interventions, including
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stimulation and low-technology room-air resuscitation. The AAP will expand and enhance implementation of HBB in collaboration with its partners, USAID, Save the Children, the National Institute for Health and Human Development, and Laerdal Global Health. AAP's efforts through HBB will reach more than 1 million children, their mothers, and families. The 2011 estimated contribution of this commitment is US $13 million.
Amnesty International (September 2010) Amnesty International will advocate for equal and timely access to reproductive healthcare services for all women and girls and campaign for greater accountability for violations of reproductive health rights.
Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) (September 2010) BRAC commits to raise USD 262 million over the next five years in support of programs and projects in Bangladesh and eight other countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Liberia, Tanzania, and Haiti.
BBC World Service Trust (September 2010) The BBC World Service Trust commits $30 million over the next 5 years. The Trust will scale up its work in Africa and Asia to work with media and communications to improve health. The Trust is committed to building the capacity of local partners in health communication and to developing pioneering new approaches to health communication using the power of new media and communications technology.
CARE (September 2010) CARE commits $1.8 billion over the next 5 years to expand successful maternal, newborn and child health programs, with a focus on empowering girls and women to increase gender equity, linking health systems and communities in systems of mutual accountability, and using innovative approaches to reach the most vulnerable populations. By expanding its maternal health programs into at least 10 additional countries—a 50 percent increase—and by scaling-up programs in countries where it currently operates, CARE aims to aid more than 30 million women of reproductive age by the 2015 Millennium Development Goals deadline.
Caring & Living as Neighbours (September 2011) CLAN (Caring & Living as Neighbours) commits to ongoing advocacy efforts and grassroots community development action on behalf of children and adolescents, so as to protect and promote their international human rights to health, most particularly in the context of the unacceptably high burden of preventable disability and death caused by chronic health conditions and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in developing countries. Identifying children who are living with the same chronic health condition as members of a distinct community, CLAN
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utilizes a strategic framework for action (CLAN's 5 pillars) to engage a range of partners to work with these communities to help the children enjoy the highest quality of life possible. Using the September 2011 UN High Level Meeting (HLM) on NCDs as a springboard for future action, NCD Child (a project managed by CLAN) will collaborate with a range of stakeholders to run an international Conference on Children, Adolescents and NCDs in March 2012. The conference will focus on reviewing the UN HLM Political Declaration, and developing a comprehensive policy roadmap capable of guiding future international efforts to redress the many global inequities associated with NCDs and other chronic health conditions that currently impact on the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.
D-tree International (September 2011) D-tree International is a leader in the development of mobile health (mHealth) tools for use by health workers in low income countries. Working together with Etisalat, D-tree is collaborating to improve the quality of health services provided to women, men and children in Tanzania. Through its subsidiary, Zantel, Etisalat is providing improved access to z-pesa outlets and innovative technology to facilitate payments which will be used to pay community birth attendants and transport providers who assist women in reaching health facilities for delivery. This is part of a broader collaboration wherein D-tree combines its expertise in developing mHealth decision support applications with Etisalat's experience in providing the technological backbone for scalable mobile solutions and will include projects in treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition as well as other maternal and child health areas. The D-tree International commitment focuses on working closely with the private, government and NGO sectors in operating countries to national sustainability and impact; making its intellectual property freely available so that its impact can be most widely leveraged; ensuring that its work is focused on helping those most in need and in particular on the rights and needs of poor women and children throughout the world.
DKT International (September 2010) DKT International commits through the HAND to HAND Campaign to increase new users of family planning from 19 million couples to 25 million couples and increase of 6 million users by 2015 and sell 3 million condoms, 250 million oral contraceptives and 60 million injectable contraceptives and 500,000 IUDs by 2015.
EngenderHealth (September 2011) EngenderHealth commits to building the capacity of health care professionals and programs in underserved communities of Africa and Asia, to protect the ability and right of women and adolescents to make free and informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. We do this by: training providers to effectively counsel clients seeking family planning, HIV/AIDS, and maternal health services; educating communities about their sexual and reproductive health and available services; promoting the widest possible range of quality family planning methods to offer options for individuals and couples to meet their reproductive intentions; and strengthening the ability of implementing partners to incorporate informed choice into routine supervision and program monitoring. Safeguards for informed and voluntary decision making are particularly
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important for the most vulnerable members of society, especially women and girls. We are pleased to undertake efforts that will improve the quality of and use of sexual and reproductive health services, which contributes directly to MDGs 3, 4 and 5.
Every Mother Counts (September 2011) Every Mother Counts is committed to increasing education and support for maternal, newborn and child health. Every Mother Counts seeks to engage new audiences to better understand the challenges and the solutions while encouraging them to take action to improve the lives of families through the improved health of girls and women worldwide. Alongside the organization's Founder, Christy Turlington Burns, Every Mother Counts will continue to scale up these efforts through its website, numerous media platforms, public engagements, and corporate partnerships.
Family Care International (FCI) (September 2010) Family Care International (FCI) commits to advocate for the political will and investment to significantly expand funding for effective maternal, newborn, and child health services, and for their integration with disease-specific interventions and broader health systems strengthening , to push for and facilitate the active engagement of civil society in health and development policy and programs at the global, national, and community levels, and demand that all stakeholders are held accountable for fulfilling their commitments.
FHI 360 (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: FHI commits through the HAND to HAND Campaign to galvanize the community's contribution to the Global Strategy and endorse the Coalition's ambitious new goal of achieving 100 million new users of contraception in low-income countries by 2015. FHI is committed to the quality assurance of contraceptive commodities and its quality assurance program to help ensure the safe use of a wide range of contraceptive methods. Success at meeting this challenge will address the family planning needs of 80% of women in these countries, and reduce by 110,000 the number of women who die giving birth. 2011: FHI 360, a global development organization with forty years of research and programmatic experience in the areas of maternal health and family planning in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, commits to supporting the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health by including a gender focus in the majority of its US Government proposals, with special emphasis on women and girls. Through the launch of its new proposal design manual and other internal tools, FHI 360 plans to set up a process for measuring the number of proposals with gender-disaggregated data in 2012.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) with DSM and Herbalife (September 2010 & September 2011)) 2010: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. GAIN's commitment to Every Woman Every Child is the launch of its new Future Fortified campaign – which seeks to help millions of women and children around the
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world gain access to the essential nutrients they need to lead healthy and enriched lives. GAIN's Future Fortified campaign seeks to increase sustainable access to essential nutrients for 50 million pregnant and lactating women and children through innovative, market-based approaches by 2015, helping ensure women are well nourished for a safe and healthy pregnancy and children get the nutrients they need for proper physical and mental growth. In response to the emergency in the Horn of Africa, GAIN and its partners, DSM and Herbalife, have committed to jointly provide 20 million packets of micronutrient powders to reach 400,000 women and children in Ethiopia over a 6 month period to address their critical nutrient gap and support long term health and development. Further, The Goldsmith Foundation and GAIN have contributed vitamin and mineral Premix to fortify 15 million servings of food assistance to reach up to 300,000 people in partnership with the World Food Programme. 2011: GAIN enhances its current commitment to Every Woman Every Child by expanding its programs in Bangladesh to fight malnutrition through innovative and sustainable market-based models that can bring impact at scale. An estimated 125 million people, specifically vulnerable women and children, will benefit through GAIN-supported programs.
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (September 2010) Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth commits to develop and uphold a Code of Conduct that puts forth standards of excellence for all repositories to be upheld in partnership with countries where repositories are being established; collaborate with its Research Harmonization Committee to developing repositories in consideration of efforts to enhance national capacity of the country’s healthcare and research sectors; work collaboratively with the local community to develop innovative approaches to engagement in research; evaluate the effectiveness of upholding the Code of Conduct and identify areas for further enhancement of operations in each country on an annual basis. Engage cross-sectors (nutrition, water, sanitation) in such efforts with the resolve of conducting the most comprehensive research to achieve improved birth outcomes. Share best practices in research at a conference in 2012 for all organizations and publish a case statement outlining the critical need for strategic investments in pregnancy and post-birth scientific research where large health gains can be achieved through the development of new, low-cost, high-impact innovations and develop a global advocacy campaign to catalyze funding to promote the utilization of new science, technology and tools to advance research and development on pregnancy and early life.
Global Health Council (GHC) (September 2010) The Global Health Council (GHC) commits to create political will, mobilize communities to help educate and mobilize communities on women and children’s health issues, increase the engagement with the private sector by identifying increased opportunities for public-private partnerships and organizing roundtable meetings and relevant initiatives to bring partners together and GHC will prioritize and advocate for women and children’s health .
Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health (GLCRH) (September 2010) The Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health (GLCRH) commits $1,846,669 over the next 2 years. The Global Leaders Council commits to create an expert working group to produce policy
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briefs on the linkages between reproductive health and development outcomes including gender equity, MDGs, economic development, global security and climate change. The GLCRH will convene the Aspen Population and Global Health Roundtable Series at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC; to host a Population, Health and Development track at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO; and to mobilize political will and financial resources necessary to achieve universal access to reproductive healthcare by 2015.
Health Alliance International (September 2011) Health Alliance International, a US NGO, commits a total of US $21,780,000 over the next 3 years towards the attainment of MDGs 4 and 5. These funds will be used to provide technical and managerial support to Ministries of Health in Mozambique, Timor-Leste and Cote d'Ivoire to strengthen their programs and systems for maternal and newborn care, Prevention of Mother-to- Child Transmission of HIV, and family planning. In each country the geographic scope is regional; the source of funds is from bilateral agencies (US and Australia), the World Health Organization, and private foundations. Beneficiaries are 510,000 women of reproductive age and 347,200 young children including newborns. These programs directly address the first three goals of the Global Strategy, providing support for country-led health plans, integration of maternal and child health and reproductive health services, and strengthening of health systems and the capacity of health workers.
International Association of Infant Massage, Australia (September 2011) The International Association of Infant Massage, Australia (IAIM Australia) expresses its strong support to working collaboratively and making a meaningful contribution to the Every Woman Every Child effort, through the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. IAIM Australia commits to improving women's and children's mental health and physical well-being by strengthening the capacity of communities to support, protect and restore early relationships between women and their babies. We will achieve this by: •Developing and distributing relevant, evidence-based resources for primary, secondary and tertiary health and early childhood services; •Increasing access to the IAIM program for people working with marginalized and at risk families; •Advocating for increased use of evidence-based education to support positive touch, infant massage and other forms of responsive interaction to strengthen the mental health of women and infants, and to reduce infant mortality and morbidity; •Increasing access to the IAIM program for women and babies who have been traumatised; •Advocating for and actively supporting improved data collection and further research in the IAIM program, and contributing to improved interpretation and dissemination of this research.
International Baby Food Action Network (September 2011) The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), a network of 250 not-for-profit, non- governmental organizations in 166 developing and developed countries, commits to advocate on
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behalf of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health's goal to increase the number of infants who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months, by 21.9 million by 2015, an increase of about 40% from current numbers. From a policy perspective, IBFAN will advocate implementation of legal measures based on the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (the Code); support country-level assessment of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (2002) through the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative, and bridge the gaps in implementation. IBFAN will also advocate for enhancing 'maternity entitlements', for example, paid maternity leave in order to afford mothers and babies the opportunity for 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, breastfeeding breaks for women returning to work, etc. From a service delivery perspective, IBFAN will support monitoring of the Code, and national and regional level training of health workers in breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding counselling. IBFAN is actively seeking new funding partners to support this commitment; we do not accept support where a conflict of interest may be present.
International Budget Partnership (September 2010) International Budget Partnership commits to explore and share best practices in the field of the generation and publishing of comprehensive and meaningful maternal health budget information, continue to support the active participation, involvement, and monitoring by civil society of health and development budgets, at the global, national, and local levels, feed relevant examples of health budget monitoring and expenditure tracking of the IBP’s partner organizations into the monitoring effort of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.
International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (September 2011) Across the globe, the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) will strive to ensure that every pregnant, lactating and child-bearing age woman, as well as every child, has access to optimal iodine to allow full realization of their individual mental and physical development potential. ICCIDD will advocate with governments, citizens, and development agencies at national, regional and global level for a strong and sustained commitment to optimal iodine nutrition and a world virtually free from iodine deficiency disorders. This will be done primarily through the strategy of universal consumption of iodized salt using a multidisciplinary approach that involves all relevant partners.
International Diabetes Federation (September 2011) The International Diabetes Federation commits to increase recognition of the linkages between diabetes and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and women and children's health, support the integration of diabetes into existing health systems and maternal and newborn child health initiatives, and empower girls and women to prevent diabetes in current and future generations.
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (September 2011) The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) represents leading research-based pharmaceutical companies and national industry associations
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worldwide. IFPMA already plays a leadership and advocacy role within the research based pharmaceutical industry in promoting awareness and encouraging engagement vis-à-vis women's and children's health. IFPMA commits to continue to advocate for policies to support access to medicines and support increased attention, engagement, and collaboration in these important global health areas within and with the global pharmaceutical industry. As part of this commitment IFPMA will publish a special publication, "Women's & Children's Health Partnerships for the Developing World," which contains a selection of access, education, and capacity building programs addressing women's and children's health, to which IFPMA members conduct or contribute. In low and middle income countries, the industry works to reduce mortality and morbidity, and to improve access to health care and medicines by supporting a large number of philanthropic or not-for-profit partnership programs. IFPMA member companies have more than 200 projects in place, worth an estimated US $9.2 billion that address the health-related Millennium Development Goals. Nearly half of these programs focus on women and children's health, and their number has been growing over the last several years.
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) (September 2010) International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) commits through the HAND to HAND Campaign to strive to contribute to meeting the needs of the 215 million women with unmet needs for contraception by increasing the number of new users of IPPF contraceptive services by at least 50% by 2015, and at least doubling the number of unintended pregnancies averted through the Campaign. By 2015 they aim to deliver 80% of services to the poorest, most marginalized and under-served women of the world.
IntraHealth International (September 2010) IntraHealth International commits by striving for ways to offer an integrated package of services for women and their families that addresses their most relevant health needs, continue to support increased capacity of the health workforce, support improvements – large and small – within the health systems and supports high quality, evidence-based and integrated services that can be offered at multiple levels of the system, with a focus on ensuring that services come closer to the communities where the world’s population lives and where the majority of deaths of women and newborns occur.
John Snow, Inc. (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: John Snow, Inc. (JSI) commits through the HAND to HAND Campaign to supporting the availability of contraceptives in low‐ income countries through the provision of supply chain management technical assistance and training for national, regional, and global programs; to collecting accurate, timely information about the status of supplies, program requirements, and supply chain operations in over 20 countries, and sharing that information widely with stakeholders to raise awareness and improve decision‐ making. 2011: With support from multilateral organizations, the US government, other bilateral development assistance agencies, and private foundations, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) implements a broad portfolio of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) activities valued at approximately US $531 million. JSI is dedicated to sharing its long-standing body of MNCH technical expertise
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and the results of our work to help improve the health of women and children worldwide. To demonstrate our support to the Every Woman Every Child effort, we at JSI are proud to commit to the following: •Train over 20,000 health workers to provide quality MNCH services in 14 countries and support them with the training of MNCH managers in supportive supervision; •Engage and empower communities in 14 countries through the training and support of over 350,000 community-based health volunteers; •Improve the quality of health data, increase evidence-based decision making, and respond to the growing demand for information-driven health services planning and management in over 50 countries; and •Identify opportunities in over 50 countries to apply our core competency in public health supply chain management to the essential products for MNCH"
Junior Chamber International (September 2011) JCI (Junior Chamber International) commits to reaching our goal of raising US $10 million by 2015 to combat malaria through the JCI Nothing But Nets campaign in partnership with the United Nations Foundation. JCI members in 115 countries are raising awareness about malaria and raising funds for the purchase and distribution of nets, as well as working on the ground in Africa to assist national distributions. Members have raised more than US $800,000 to date. At the 2011 JCI Global Partnership Summit, members reaffirmed our dedication to advancing the MDGs with a firm commitment for every JCI National Organization to run at least one MDG- focused project in the next year.
Management Sciences for Health (September 2011) Management Sciences for Health (MSH) announces a five-year, US $200 million commitment to improve health systems and family planning services in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Haiti. In partnership with local and national governments, and with funding from USAID (in Haiti), MSH will continue to strengthen local capacity to manage the supply chain of USAID-donated condoms and family planning commodities. In Afghanistan, MSH will continue to work with the Ministry of Health to build its management, leadership, and public health technical capacity the central level and in 24 provinces. In DRC, MSH will continue to unite diverse health providers under a strategy to fully implement the minimum and complementary health service packages. In addition to our field work in the selected countries, MSH is committed to educating US members of Congress and other policymakers on the unique needs of women and children in these fragile states through advocacy and communication activities.
March of Dimes (September 2011) The March of Dimes commitment to Every Woman Every Child is a new global awareness and advocacy campaign to increase international attention to and funding for research and programs to reduce the tragic toll of death and disability caused by preterm birth. The March of Dimes and the World Health Organization estimate that 13 million babies are born prematurely each year, and one million of these children die before their first birthday. The centerpiece of our campaign
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is the first-ever annual World Prematurity Day to be held on 17 November 2011. Partners in this initiative are the European Foundation for the Care of Newborns and Infants, based in Germany and representing 18 countries across Europe; Little Big Souls, based in Nigeria; and the National Preemie Foundation of Australia. Additional participating organizations are being identified in Asia, the eastern Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America to be welcomed into the global network in 2013. Each organization will determine the specific recommendations that are appropriate for their own country. We have created an international community of interested parents, professionals, NGOs, hospitals, donor organizations, and others at www.facebook.com/WorldPrematurityDay.
Marie Stopes International (September 2011) Inclusive of commitments made through the Hand to Hand Campaign, MSI pledges that the voluntary family planning and quality reproductive healthcare it provides globally during 2011- 2015 will have the long term health impact of preventing 29 million unwanted pregnancies, 8 million unsafe abortions and 80,000 maternal deaths. These health outcomes will be achieved by significantly expanding MSI's direct service delivery and through partnerships with governments, private sector providers and other agencies.
mothers2mothers (September 2011) As its commitment to the Every Woman Every Child effort, mothers2mothers will strive to double the percentage of HIV+ pregnant women we serve by 2015, growing our reach from 20% to 40% of the global population of pregnant women living with HIV.
ONE (September 2011) ONE will contribute to the Global Strategy through our issue advocacy as well as by mobilizing political support, engaging new constituencies and promoting accountability. ONE will utilize its 2.5 million members, social networks (blog, facebook, twitter, youtube), partnerships, and spokespeople to raise continued awareness of maternal and child health issues. Specific attention will be channeled toward efforts to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to save children's lives through improved access to new and underutilized vaccines. ONE will also continue to hold politicians and governments accountable for pledges made in support of maternal and child health. Specifically, we will focus on ensuring that the US $4.3 billion in new pledges for the GAVI Alliance are made real by 2015, and that global ODA for health is maintained or increased. We will advocate for the development of country plans to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in high-burden countries. We will also work to educate 2012 US presidential candidates about development issues including maternal and child health, and secure their support for these issues 'on the record'.
PATH (September 2011) Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), with support from BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities, commits US $25 million over the next five years to improve the health and development of children under the age of two in South Africa and Mozambique. By strengthening
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local health and development systems, improving services, and changing behaviors, PATH's work will increase access to maternal-child health and survival programs for a population of approximately 4 million people and support both countries in their efforts to meet their commitments under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Specifically, the Window of Opportunity Project focuses on improving the health and development of children less than two years old in four districts in South Africa and one district in Mozambique. Using a participatory approach aimed at building community ownership and capacity, the Window of Opportunity project will be working in partnership with local health and social services departments, as well as with nongovernmental and community-based organizations, to tailor its activities to local needs and capacities for improving child health and development.
Pathfinder International (September 2011) Pathfinder International commits to work with The Nature Conservancy and Frankfurt Zoological Society to raise at least US $250,000 to launch an integrated family planning and maternal and child health program in the extremely remote villages surrounding Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania. The project will launch in 2012 and we anticipate continuing for at least five years with additional funds raised. This project is focused entirely on the hardest-to-reach women and children without access to the government health system. The main focus is family planning, along with prenatal care, delivery and postnatal care, newborn care, immunizations and adolescent reproductive health. This will be done through training of health personnel and of additional community health workers to conduct home visits, and substantial improvements to existing health facilities, to the benefit all women of reproductive age, children, and adolescents seeking maternal, newborn and child health and contraceptive services. Pathfinder International promises to develop and test innovative approaches; integrate essential services for the most vulnerable; educate, engage and mobilize communities to seek their own solutions; track progress through monitoring and evaluation; strengthen local capabilities to scale up interventions; and advocate for increased attention and government investments to women's and children's health, especially family planning. We will coordinate with government and community organizations and introduce available technologies, such as mobile phones, where appropriate.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (September 2011) Planned Parenthood Federation of American (PPFA) commits to supporting our in-country partners in Africa and Latin America to reach 2 million people with sexual and reproductive health information, supplies and services, especially family planning, by 2015. Through our partnerships, PPFA helps local groups cultivate capacities necessary for institutional sustainability, including the flexibility to act amidst emerging reproductive health problems, technologies and policies. Recognizing that the largest generation the world has ever seen is entering their reproductive years, we will expand projects focusing on young people, especially using social media, to reach an additional half a million adolescents with information and access to services when the need them. Our goal is to help create the healthiest generation ever.
Population Council (September 2011)
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The Population Council will conduct social science, public health, and biomedical research in reproductive health, HIV, and poverty, gender, and youth to improve people's lives. It designs health products and supports service delivery programs and policies responsive to people in developing countries. In support of this initiative, the Council is committed to: •Bringing new contraceptives, microbicides, and multipurpose technologies appropriate to the needs of vulnerable women, children, and men in developing countries to market; and engaging with pharmaceutical companies to license, register, manufacture, and/or donate Council technologies and devices to expand choice in developing countries. •Using research to identify service delivery problems that affect women's and children's health; conducting operations research and economic analyses to test the feasibility and effectiveness of solutions to these problems; and providing program managers and policy makers with the information and capacity to expand coverage and improve service quality. •Seeking to reduce inequities related to poverty, ethnicity, age, HIV status, gender, and sexual orientation; and, helping adolescents reach a successful, productive adulthood through expanded access to innovative products, services, and interventions. We will focus on about 20 countries. The estimated financial commitment will be US $10 million annually for three years.
Population Services International (PSI) (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: Population Services International (PSI) commits on behalf of PSI and their partners to support over the next 5 years the provision of life-saving products, clinical services, and behaviour change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives. PSI’s commitment will help the UN address key global health priorities, including malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive health. 2011: Population Services International (PSI) is pleased to make a commitment to the following by 2015: provide 12.3 million individuals with contraceptives per year; distribute a total of 4.2 billion male condoms, 158 million cycles of oral contraceptives, 26 million female condoms, 32 million injectables, 11 million doses of emergency contraception, 3.5 million lUDs and 460,000 hormonal implants between 2011 and 2015. We see the successful achievement of our commitment as having a significant impact on the lives and well-being of women and families across the developing world. Specifically, these 12.3 million family planning users per year will prevent 3 million unintended pregnancies and avert 14,000 maternal deaths each year. In addition, we commit to advocate for the improvement of women and children's health and access to quality and affordable life-saving products over the next five years, and to disseminate information and research findings about proven-effective reproductive health services.
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition commits, through its launch of the HAND to HAND Campaign, to achieve 100 million new modern contraceptive users by 2015 thereby fulfilling the family planning needs of 80 percent of women in low- and middle-income countries of the developing world. The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition is leading the effort for the Global Strategy among its members organization by encouraging them and the broader health
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and development communities to commit resources, scale up services, provide supplies and advocate reaching this goal. 2011: The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition commits, through its HANDtoHAND Campaign, to reduce unmet need for family planning by 100 million additional users of modern contraception by 2015. In the last 12 months, the following organizations have made HANDtoHAND Pledges of financial, program and/or policy support to the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health: Advance Family Planning, APROFAM, Bayer Pharma, CIES-UNAN, CLAE, Crown Agents, DFID, Ipas, Merck MSD, MSI, PAI, PATH, Pathfinder, Population Council, PRISMA, UN Foundation, UNFPA, USAID and WomanCare Global. The pledges include increases in contraceptive prevalence of at least 2 percentage points per year in over 45 countries, greater access to affordable commodities through price reductions, and over US $215 million in new financing for reproductive health. More information on individual pledges is available at http://www.rhsupplies.org."
Rotarian Action Group for Population and Sustainable Development (September 2011) The Rotarian Action Group for Population and Sustainable Development (RFPD) commits to offer the methodology and findings of its pilot project to reduce maternal and newborn mortality, implemented between 2005 and 2010, to Rotary's worldwide network of clubs. By implementing this comprehensive approach including quality assurance in obstetrics in 10 selected general hospitals in the states of Kano and Kaduna, Nigeria, RFPD reduced the average maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by 60%, from 1,790/100,000 to 710/100,000, within two years. Together with Rotary Clubs and supported by The Rotary Foundation, RFPD is preparing the scaling up of the 'Kano and Kaduna model' in other states of Nigeria and the German government has offered to co-fund this scaling up with 1 million Euros. RFPD offers advice to all Rotary Clubs worldwide on how to adapt, implement and scale up this successful approach to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in other developing regions/countries and provides a comprehensive set of indicators for an adequate and effective monitoring and measuring of progress. Interested stakeholders are invited to join RFPD's efforts. This comprehensive approach leads to improvements of health systems in developing countries, saves lives of mothers and their newborns and strengthens families and communities. The methodology and results are published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics and will be published in detail on www.maternal-health.org.
Save the Children (September 2010) Save the Children commits up to $500 million per year for the next 5 years (including $150 million contributed by private individuals) to: promote policy changes that accelerate progress on MDG4; expand and intensify efforts to integrate proven technology into health systems to protect newborns in 12 priority countries; train 400,000 health workers; mobilize civil society to hold governments accountable; engage with multi-sector partners to help deliver life-saving programming. Save the Children is also committed to advocating for equity in all health and nutrition programmes to ensure that disproportionate levels of mortality in poor and marginalised groups are no longer tolerated.
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Sesame Workshop (September 2011) Sesame Workshop is the world's leading educational media non-profit organization, reaching millions of children and families in over 150 countries worldwide. The organization's mission is to maximize the educational power of media to help all children reach their highest potential. Sesame Workshop's commitment to Every Woman Every Child is the expansion of our health- related work in Latin America, Africa and Asia in 2011-2012. Over the life of the program, it is estimated that expansion of our work in these three priority regions will: reach millions of additional children and mothers with a particular focus on vulnerable populations in both rural and urban settings; result in measurable changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in target populations related to prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria; build capacity in health education with local partners; lead to social marketing campaigns focused on increased awareness around the critical need for early prevention of NCDs and infectious diseases; result in evidence-based innovations in the use of media and new technologies to promote healthy habits in developing countries targeting women and children; and enable progress and mobilizing media to help meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Health Alliance (September 2010) Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Health Alliance commits $500,000 through the expansion of the their Middle East Partnership Initiative to broaden the focus for women's cancers and women's health and include a financial commitment and a health services commitment to the NGOs working in the Middle East to improve women’s health by addressing issues of breast and cervical cancer in an integrated health care system.
The Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (September 2011) The Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry has committed to Every Woman Every Child to raise awareness of cervical cancer by disseminating information about cervical cancer and its prevention to 30,000 Bangladeshi women through leaflets, letters, counseling, hotline centers, training programs, meetings, and roundtables by 2016. The BWCCI will also take initiatives to motivate 20,000 young mothers to be inoculated to prevent cervical cancer and 30,000 women to do pap smears test annually.
Together for Girls (September 2011) Together for Girls commits to utilizing its research, advocacy and in-country program efforts to improve the health and well-being of women and children. A global public-private partnership dedicated to eliminating sexual violence against children, particularly girls, Together for Girls focuses on three pillars: conducting and supporting national surveys on the magnitude and impact of violence against children, particularly focused on sexual violence against girls; supporting coordinated program actions in response to the data; and leading global advocacy
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and public awareness efforts to draw attention to the problem and promote evidence-based solutions. In addition, developing and strengthening the capacity of individuals and institutions is an important cross-cutting element of the partnership. Working with governments and civil society, the Together for Girls model builds on existing programs and platforms wherever possible to integrate the issue of sexual violence into social welfare, health, education, and justice programs. Together for Girls is currently active in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Malawi, Haiti, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. These efforts will continue and expand in the upcoming years, increasing awareness of the magnitude of the problem, and the significant consequences to individuals, communities and society.
US Coalition for Child Survival (September 2010) The US Coalition for Child Survival commits by pledging continued efforts to promote and achieve specific Congressional legislation to assure on-going development of a US strategy to improve women’s and children’s health.
Water.org (September 2011) For the past two decades, Water.org has strived to develop and drive market-based and scalable models that can more effectively address water and sanitation needs at the base of the economic pyramid. Water.org is committed to taking this approach to the next level by expanding and scaling its WaterCredit initiative in India to reach a minimum of 800,000 people, of which more than half are women and children, with clean water and sanitation by 2016. This approach, Water.org's initial commitment to Every Woman Every Child, will empower thousands of households to gain access to critical financial services to meet their own water and sanitation needs over-time, and improve their well-being. More than 90 percent of WaterCredit loan recipients will be women.
WaterAid (September 2011) Diarrhoea, caused by lack of access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and hygiene practices, kills 4,000 a day, every day. It is the biggest cause of under-five mortality in sub- Saharan Africa. The absence of these basic services continues not only to risk the lives of women and children, but also has a crucial impact on the quality of their lives, on their levels of poverty, on educational attainment, and on life opportunities. WaterAid, through our direct work and partnership with civil society, government, international organisations, academic institutions and the media, aims to ensure access to improved sanitation, hygiene and safe drinking water for a further 25 million people by 2015. By influencing the policies and practices of governments and service providers we hope to reach a further 100 million people. WaterAid will: promote and secure poor people's rights and access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation; support governments and service providers in developing their capacity to deliver safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation; and advocate for the essential role of safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in human development.
WaterHealth International (September 2011)
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WaterHealth International is the leader in providing scalable, safe and affordable clean water solutions to underserved and impoverished communities through innovative business models. On a yearly basis, our facilities purify over 100 million liters of water, which is received by over 4 million people – a number that is growing as our business models expand along with the geographic areas in which we operate. We currently have operations in India, Ghana, and the Philippines – reaching nearly 4 million people with clean water. Our very existence and success thus far is demonstrative of the true potential of utilizing private sector strengths for public health successes. WaterHealth's commitment to Every Woman Every Child is the expansion of WaterHealth programs to the Global Strategy's priority countries of Bangladesh, Nigeria and Liberia in 2011-2012. Over the life of the program, it is estimated that such expansion into these priority countries will result in: improved access to clean water to 3 million people; drastically lowering the incidents of child diarrhea and other water borne diseases; employing over 250 people (job growth); and enabling progress to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in these countries.
White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (September 2010) White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and its members in 148 countries commit to the Global Strategy by engaging local, national, regional, and global organizations and individuals to ensure MNCH is a priority issue for all governments and hold governments accountable to their financial, policy, and implementation commitments through 2015.
Women and Children First (September 2011) Women and Children First (UK) commits to working with partners in Africa and Asia to mobilise communities to reduce maternal and newborn mortality rates through cost-effective and scalable community based interventions. Women and Children First (UK) also commits to keeping up the pressure on donor and national governments to achieve optimal reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health outcomes and to increase political commitment and action to support progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 in low and middle-income countries.
Women Deliver (September 2010) Women Deliver commits to keeping up the pressure to improve women’s and children’s health over the next five years, tracking commitments made and ensuring the global spotlight stays on those who have power to help keep girls and women alive and healthy. Working with 15,000 advocates around the globe, Women Deliver will certify that governments, policy-makers, health systems, foundations, civil society organizations and international agencies understand that the time for action is now, and to standing ready to help anyone turn good new ideas into reality on the ground. Women Deliver will convene a global conference in 2013 to celebrate successes and launch the final push to 2015 and pledges to keep delivering new hope for girls, women and children for as long as it takes to meet their needs.
Women's Health and Education Center (September 2011)
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The Women's Health and Education Center (WHEC) aims to improve women's health through education and advocacy, particularly in developing countries. WomensHealthSection.com, launched in cooperation with the UN, provides information on everyday issues associated with women's health. This e-learning initiative is active in 220 countries, linked to 30,800 courses in the developing world, and receives 25,000-30,000 visitors per day. As a web-enabled platform, it allows for multiple forms of collaboration worldwide. WHEC will cover the costs of the research and development of our e-learning initiative. Continuing medical education services will be provided free to the countries identified by the UNDP as Least Developed Countries. WHEC remains committed to providing health education and advocacy regarding improving neonatal health outcomes. We will also provide evidence-based medical information to in-country partners and health care providers in Africa and Latin America, to reach 3 million people with reproductive health information, especially family planning, by 2015. WHEC will continue its commitment to create health-promoting schools, recognizing that adolescents find themselves under strong peer pressure to engage in high risk behavior. The spread of HIV/AIDS among adolescents is growing phenomenon, while the traditional problem of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continues to increase. WHEC will continue to emphasize: self-esteem; family planning; the importance of postponing the first pregnancy; and the ability to withstand peer pressure.
World Vision International (September 2010) World Vision International commits $1.5 billion over 5 years in support of a family and community model of health care delivery, focusing on a health and nutrition strategy, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and HIV/STI screening of children.
World YWCA (September 2011) As a global movement leading change in our communities, reaching 25 million women and girls in 125 countries, we commit to: •mobilise political support, engaging new constituencies and promoting accountability to women and girls. •advocate for and monitor the implementation of key global commitments on women and children's health especially on reproductive health, HIV and violence related actions through our member associations. •deliver effective interventions; programmes and services to women's sexual and reproductive health and rights through provision of safe and empowering spaces for women and girls in 20 countries. •contribute US $2 million dollars through the Power to Change Fund in five years, as well as through individual programmes of our YWCA member associations. •provide an estimated 1 (one) billion hours of time in the next five years through volunteer work in communities in 100 countries through provision of care; support, counselling, information and accompaniment.
Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (September 2011) The Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR) commits to continue promoting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls and young women, in order to
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help ensure full and unconditional access to comprehensive sexuality education, and quality sexual and reproductive health services, including emergency contraception and safe abortion services. We will advocate at the international level; support the capacity of youth who are advocating for sexual and reproductive rights; and generate knowledge about adolescent girls' and young women's health and rights.
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(RED) (September 2011) (RED) commits to driving corporate sector engagement in the fight for an AIDS Free Generation by 2015. (RED) currently supports Global Fund HIV/AIDS grants in six African countries: Ghana, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia. 100% of all (RED) contributions to the Global Fund goes to the implementation of these grants – no overhead is taken out. These grants fund vital public health services, including HIV/AIDS awareness building, education and life-skills, nutrition, HIV testing and counseling, anti-retroviral treatment and treatment for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. Watch the video below to learn how you can join the fight for an AIDS Free Generation.
Abdul Monem Limited (September 2011) Abdul Monem Limited commits to raise awareness of malnutrition and provide free vitamins. Partnering with the Nutrition Department of Dhaka University, AML plans to reach 50,000 poor and needy mothers (both pregnant and lactating) in the next five years through its nutrition awareness program. AML also pledges to provide eight types of vitamins free of cost to 50,000 pregnant mothers in the next five years.
Becton Dickinson (September 2010) Becton Dickinson commits to be a participating partner in ‘Together For Girls,’ with UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA and UNIFEM, private sector organizations and the US government to help the UN drive forward solutions towards ending sexual violence against girls.
Body Shop (September 2010) The Body Shop commits over $2.25 million for their initiative, ‘Stop the Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People’, developed in partnership with ECPAT International, and launched in 60 countries. The Body Shop will launch in December 2010 the first of 3 annual campaigns in partnership with UNAIDS.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation (September 2011) In 1999 Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation launched Secure the Future (STF), the first and largest private commitment to help address the HIV epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa. STF's initial commitment of US $100 million in the five southern most African countries has now exceeded US $165 million and is present in over 20 African countries. A major element of STF was the development of the first network of Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence on the continent in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine and country
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governments. BMS has also invested in the human resource needs of these centers by establishing the first Pediatric AIDS Corps to help treat but also train local health care professionals. The sites now see over 97,000 children and parents through the centers and network of satellite clinics. Another component of Secure the Future is the establishment of a South to South, Technical Assistance Program (TAP) on community based care. BMS Foundation's commitment includes establishing a new clinical center of excellence in Kisumu, Kenya; incorporating breast and cervical cancer training into our Technical Assistance model in South Africa and Lesotho (a five year, US $2 million commitment) and an increase of TAPs efforts on PMTCT and OVC care and support in Swaziland and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dow Corning (September 2011) Dow Corning will provide US $5 million in unrestricted support over five years to the United Nations-led Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Providing global leadership and grassroots assistance where possible, Dow Corning commits technical, human and financial resources to making a difference in solving one of the world's leading environmental, health and social problems – traditional cook stoves and open fires that serve as the primary means of cooking and heating for nearly three billion people in the developing world. Additionally, Dow Corning will integrate employee participation into this transformational effort through its Dow Corning Citizen Service Corps. In this way, Dow Corning scientists, engineers and business professionals will work with Alliance partners and in the field on specific projects designed to facilitate adoption of cleaner cooking technology; educate women regarding the benefits of using clean cookstoves; and facilitate development of a viable global cookstove industry. Smoke from traditional cookstoves kills nearly two million people annually, with women and young children most at risk from acute and chronic diseases such as pneumonia, heart and lung disease, COPD, accidents and the dangers to personal safety associated with fuel gathering for the family fire.
GE & GE Healthcare (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: GE & GE Healthcare commit, as part of GE’s $6 billion healthymagination initiative, to expand its Maternal-Infant Care technology portfolio to increase local access to care in more than 80 countries and reduce maternal and infant mortality, more than doubling its presence in the developing world. Additionally, the company will continue to deploy its signature program, Developing Health Globally™, which has already impacted the lives of more than 5.3 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. 2011: Through GE's US $6 billion commitment in September 2010, GE Healthcare is committed to helping achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Protecting the health of mothers and babies in rural areas is GE's foremost priority in rural health. GE Healthcare's goal is to continuously develop innovations that help clinicians and healthcare providers deliver high-quality healthcare at lower cost to more people around the world, particularly in rural areas. GE Healthcare's rural health strategy is driven by technology and innovation; designing healthcare equipment that can address health needs in remote and underserved areas, through a diverse portfolio of maternal-infant care products, which ranges from ultrasound, fetal monitoring devices, baby warmers and phototherapy devices, and offers midwives effective tools that support a continuum of care from conception to childbirth and infant care. Developing regions such as sub-Saharan Africa are where GE's commitments come face to face with the greatest need. The company is striving to
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enable greater access to high-quality healthcare for more people at an affordable cost. To this end, GE Healthcare is expanding its maternal-infant care portfolio to offer more products to over 80 lower-income countries. Included already are safety-tested, affordable and easy-to-use infant care products that provide warmth for newborns, phototherapy to treat jaundiced infants and incubators for babies. By providing effective, high-quality and easy-to-use products, with basic education, we believe we can make a major difference in the region.
GSK (September 2010) GSK commits to increases support for the WHO strategy to improve children’s health with a new 5-year commitment to expand donations of albendazole medicine to 1 billion doses each year, an increase of 600 million doses each year. This increased donation in collaboration with WHO hopes to create universal access to de-worming forall school age children in Africa.
Hewlett Packard (September 2011) As the world's largest information technology company, Hewlett Packard (HP) shares an urgent goal with the UN Secretary-General: to improve healthcare and quality of life for millions of women and children around the world. Social innovation at HP is an exciting, dynamic and targeted initiative within the company's Global Citizenship strategy. Based on the concept of creating shared value, it connects economic progress with societal needs. Social Innovation at HP centers on the belief that the same passion, energy and culture of innovation that makes HP successful commercially can also be used to make a profound and positive social impact in the world. Through its global health initiatives, HP is collaborating with leading health authorities to reinvent processes, modernize systems, and develop solutions that dramatically expand access, improve care, and save lives. HP's commits to continue applying the skills of its people (more than 320,000), its technology assets, and its customer and stakeholder partnerships to develop innovative solutions that address the root causes of critical global challenges such as infant HIV, maternal health, unemployment and poverty. For example, HP has partnered with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Kenya Ministry of Health on the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) project. The goal is to leverage technology solutions to improve testing and treatment for more than 120,000 infants exposed to HIV in Kenya each year. In 2010, HP provided over US $45 million to support its Global Social Innovation efforts and commits to continue applying its human, technical, intellectual, and financial assets to develop transformative solutions and enable healthy lives, active minds and hope for millions.
Intel Corporation (September 2011) Intel Corporation is pleased to announce support and commitment towards the United Nations Secretary-General's Every Woman Every Child effort. We firmly believe in this effort and that in the 21st century, all women and children must have access to quality healthcare. A strategic imperative for better access to healthcare will include empowered front-line healthcare workers with educational tools, computer literacy skills, and the latest computer and internet technologies. Intel plans to collaborate with governments, private industry, development community, and academia to launch in-country programs that help address the educational needs of at least one million front-line healthcare workers by 2015. We plan to share our
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healthcare expertise, industry standards leadership, and education tools to enhance computer literacy and health education for healthcare professionals and healthcare students. We need to foster a collaborative business environment where public-private partnerships can thrive and provide the innovation needed to create new sustainable business models that deliver "more health for the money". Intel is very excited about the opportunity to assist countries in achieving the important United Nations Millennium Development Goals for child mortality and maternal health.
Johnson & Johnson (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: Johnson & Johnson commits $200 million over the next 5 years for a package of commitments called ‘Every Mother, Every Child’ that aims to help as many as 120 million women and children each year. Every Mother, Every Child aims to increase life expectancy and quality-of- life for women and children in the developing world. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing more than 15 million expectant and new mothers in Bangladesh, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa with free mobile phone messages on prenatal health, reminders of clinic appointments and calls from health mentors over the five-year program. Johnson & Johnson will also donate 200 million doses, each year, of mebendazole, a treatment for intestinal worms in children. Johnson & Johnson is also committed to researching and developing a drug for tuberculosis with a new mechanism of action in 40 years, antiretrovirals to treat HIV and potentially prevent HIV transmission from pregnant women to their infants, as well as new technologies that may, in the future, prevent the transmission of HIV between adults. Johnson & Johnson is also committed to extending current commitments to peer education programs that have been successful in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV; reducing a life- threatening condition in infants caused by lack of oxygen at birth (birth asphyxia); and upgrading existing health care facilities to accommodate more women at risk of fistulas. 2011: In September 2010, Johnson & Johnson made a five-year commitment in response to the United Nations' Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health to achieve the Millennium Development Goals focused on women's and children's health by 2015. Our commitment seeks to increase life expectancy and quality-of-life and, by the year 2015, we aim to be reaching at least 120 million women and children per year in 50 countries through partnerships. As one of the first private sector leaders to answer the Secretary-General's call for increased resourcing, attention, innovation and progress for women's and children's health, Johnson & Johnson recognizes the important role of integrated approaches and comprehensive collaborations to support sustainable progress towards MDGs four and five working closely with and through the United Nations. The newest efforts in delivering on our commitment is also the first-ever corporate partner to a joint (H4+) UN program, a 4-year partnership with UNFPA, UNICEF, the World Bank, WHO and UNAIDS (collectively known as the H4+ agencies). The program's aim is to help reducing maternal and infant mortality in Tanzania and Ethiopia by building healthcare capacity and training skilled birth attendants."
LG Electronics (September 2010) LG Electronics commits to investing in Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) communities in Kenya and Ethiopia through a partnership with the World Food Program’s Partnership of Hope – Africa. Through this partnership, LG Electronics is committed to poverty alleviation and reducing hunger through sustainable development.
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LifeSpring Hospitals of India (September 2011) LifeSpring Hospitals of India is an expanding chain of maternity hospitals that provides high quality health care to lower-income women and children in India. By using a market-based approach, LifeSpring fills the void of high quality maternal and child health care at affordable rates for India's low-income population. LifeSpring's unique existence and expanding operations is demonstrative of the true potential of private sector solutions to dire public health needs – perhaps most powerfully in the area of maternal health and childhood vaccinations. Both of these areas are exactly and exclusively what LifeSpring Hospitals has focused on since their first hospital in 2005. Since then, LifeSpring has expanded to 12 other hospitals in India – safely and successfully delivering over 11,000 babies and serving over 150,000 customers – all of whom come from poor, urban, areas of India. LifeSpring Hospital commits to expanding their maternal health hospital network to 100 new facilities between 2011 and 2015 in 7 cities in India, aiming to reach out to 60 million people and delivering more than 100,000 babies. LifeSpring Hospitals is a member of UNDP's Business Call to Action.
Merck (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: Merck commits an estimated $840 million over the next 5 years through their HIV prevention and treatment, childhood asthma programs and donation of HPV vaccine, GARDASIL®, to organizations and institutions in eligible lowest income countries to enable countries to develop capacity to implement vaccination programs. Merck and Qiagen are also committed to increasing access to HPV vaccination and HPV DNA testing in some of the most resource-poor areas of the world through up to five million doses of GARDASIL and HPV DNA tests to screen an additional 500,000 women. The two companies will also support the development and implementation of sustainable best practice models for cervical cancer reduction in low-income, high disease burden countries. 2011: Merck, a global healthcare leader, commits to joining global partners to save the lives of women during pregnancy and childbirth and is making this fight part of its mission for the long- haul. Merck for Mothers (www.merckformothers.com) starts with a 10-year, US $500 million initiative to help reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Merck will apply its scientific and business expertise to make proven solutions more widely available, develop new game-changing technologies and improve public awareness, policy efforts and private sector engagement for maternal mortality. 'Merck for Mothers' will work to improve the quality and supply of diagnostic, prevention, and treatment interventions for post-partum hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia. In addition, the company will strengthen medical education for skilled birth attendants, develop sustainable models for health delivery and expand access to family planning, a critical life-saving solution. Merck will collaborate with partners to develop game-changing maternal health technologies for widespread use in resource-poor settings starting with an assessment of more than 30 existing promising technologies. The initiative will be guided by input from an internal steering committee and an external advisory board and will utilize an independent organization to monitor and evaluate its efforts. Merck is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada.
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Nestlé (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: Nestlé commits to expanding nutrition education to teenage girls in all its milk villages in India to help increase their knowledge about good nutrition and healthy diets. Nestlé also aims to double the number of countries covered by its “Healthy Kids Global Program” launched in 2010, and already has programs in over 50 countries reaching 5 million children. Nestlé is rapidly expanding the training of women to be door to door entrepreneurs and distributors of healthy food products, earning on the average 40% more than minimum wage. In Brazil alone, 6,000 have been trained, to expand to 10,000 by the beginning of 2011. Nestlé supports over 250 programs in countries around the world aimed at empowering women to gain economic independence and escape poverty in three primary areas: farming, nutrition, and small-scale distributors of food products.
2011: As the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company, Nestlé makes considerable investments designed to enhance the quality of life of its employees, consumers, suppliers and the communities in which it operates. Overall, Nestlé maintains nearly 300 business-related activities and programmes which directly support the MDGs – particularly related to women's empowerment and health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, and community development, especially in rural areas. This unique engagement experience with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is based on Nestlé's fundamental business philosophy of Creating Shared Value whereby healthy communities, lead to healthy economic systems for growth and development. Nestlé's commitment to Every Woman Every Child is anchored in continuing and scaling up a host of programmes, including the expansion of Nestlé Healthy Kids Global Programme (HKP) to 51 new countries at the end of 2011. HKP has been designed to address today's complex health challenges, such as poor nutrition and obesity, by teaching school-age children the value of good nutrition and physical activity. Each programme has been developed in collaboration with national health and education authorities, and child nutrition experts, to address the specific needs of children in target areas. In 2010, alone, HKP reached 3.35 million children.
Nigerian Private Sector (September 2011) WellBeing Foundation and Tony Elumelu Foundation with Chellarams Group, Dangote Group and Dangote Foundation, Diamond Bank, Family Care Association, Friends of the Global Fund Africa, Guaranty Trust Bank, KPMG, MON Global Communication, MTN and MTN Foundation, OANDO, Ojora Group of Companies, Phillips Consulting, Stormberg Power Ltd, Stronghold Support Services, Think Africa Foundation, Zenith Bank The WellBeing Foundation of Nigeria has assumed a leadership role in catalyzing and securing private sector commitments and creating new partnerships for maternal newborn and child health (MNCH). The WellBeing Foundation's commitment to Every Woman Every Child has been the development of new collaborations for MNCH efforts in Nigeria focusing on strategic grant- making, thus far securing new financial, advocacy and corporate social responsibility commitments from a range of Nigerian business and philanthropic leaders. Programmatically, the WellBeing Foundation commitment focuses on the development and scaling up of programs that will immediately show verifiable impact on the survival of mothers and children. Among these programs is the adoption of a contextually and regionally attractive Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-related communication policy for harmonized messaging and coordinated advocacy efforts on MNCH. Furthermore, WellBeing Foundation commits to the development and
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deployment of integral tools that will enhance, track, monitor and evaluate universal uptake of beneficial and essential public health provision for women and children – through the scaling up and modernization of personal health records for all women and children in Nigeria. The WellBeing Foundation commits to US $2.5 million per year to support this Nigeria-led, Nigeria- managed, Africa-focused, Africa-impact, private sector-driven effort. As its commitment to Every Woman Every Child, up to US $250,000 of The Tony Elumelu Foundation's (TEF) existing impact investing capital will be allocated to provide equity or debt capital to start-up and early stage companies seeking to commercialise innovative solutions related to improved maternal and child health care delivery. The primary focus will be Nigeria in year one, but with an eye for opportunistic investments elsewhere in Africa where appropriate. TEF will leverage internal business development talent and experience as well as provide access to networks to provide additional technical assistance support to build sustainable companies. Other investors with an interest in the space will be welcome to co-invest or partner with TEF in other ways to make this effort a success.
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (September 2011) Novartis and the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) have been contributing to the realization of the MDGs since their launch in 2000. NFSD has committed to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a variety of healthcare programs as well as through efforts to bring different stakeholders together to build effective health partnerships. One such project, developed in partnership with WHO, IMCI Computerized Adaptation and Training Tool (ICATT), is the newest example of such a commitment. ICATT is an innovative e-learning software targeted at reducing under five mortality by globally scaling up training in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) after successful testing in Tanzania, Peru and Indonesia. In 2011, the NFSD and the WHO decided to continue collaboration in order to develop a similar training tool for Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth (IMPAC) in order to contribute to the achievement of MDG 5. The tool will thus be called IMPACTT (Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth Training Tool) and comprise training modules in pregnancy care, childbirth, newborn care, postnatal maternal care and postnatal newborn care. The first module on Essential Newborn Care will be ready for testing by the end of this year.
Novo Nordisk (September 2010 & September 2011) 2010: Novo Nordisk commits to continue to work towards improving the health of women and children with a specific focus on screening, treatment and care for gestational diabetes and will develop a partnership-based programme, as part of a long-term commitment to sustainable improvement in health, through which the company will campaign for universal screening for gestational diabetes; support the development of new evidence and platforms for action by addressing critical research gaps; mobilise key stakeholders at national and global levels to promote change with a positive health impact for women and the next generation; engage key partners in exploring and co-creating innovative solutions targeting women, diabetes and pregnancy. 2011: Novo Nordisk commits to Every Woman Every Child through the Early Origins of Health Initiative, which is committed to advancing the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
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with a focus on improving maternal, newborn and child health. The overarching aim is to give a healthy start to life by supporting pregnant women and their children during the 'first 1000 days' – the nine months of pregnancy and up to the first two years of childhood. The Early Origins of Health Initiative will design and demonstrate efficacious interventions that will improve health outcomes for the mother and unborn child, and explore solutions that can potentially spur new approaches to preventing non-communicable diseases. The Early Origins of Health Initiative will prototype an intervention in South Africa during 2012-2013. The Early Origins of Health Initiative brings together private sector partners with core competencies in areas such as of nutrition, diabetes, healthcare and hygiene.
Pfizer (September 2010) Pfizer commits through ongoing programs and partnerships to support the UN Secretary General's Every Woman, Every Child objectives by helping address health priorities in the following areas: infant immunization for the prevention of pneumococcal disease; education, training and advocacy programs on maternal and infant health; development of intermittent preventative treatment for malaria in pregnant women; infant and young child nutrition; healthcare system capacity building; and sustainable commercial models for products addressing the needs of women and children in developing countries. One of the primary ways Pfizer supports the health priority of infant immunization for the prevention of pneumococcal disease is by acting as a major supplier to the Advanced Market Commitment (AMC). In 2010, Pfizer entered into a 10-year agreement with UNICEF to provide up to 300 million doses of Prevenar 13 to infants and young children in the poorest countries of the world at a deeply discounted price. Other Pfizer initiatives include supporting the needs of women and children in developing countries by working with institutional buyers, which purchase medicines in bulk and distribute them to some of the world's neediest patients; and training nurses who provide primary and secondary prevention services to women and children in disadvantaged populations.
Safaricom (September 2011) Safaricom, the leading provider of converged communications solutions in Kenya, commits to closely collaborate through a Kenya mobile health (mHealth) partnership with the Kenyan Government, Civil Society Organisations such as World Vision Kenya, Care Kenya, NetHope, mHealth Alliance, and others to develop the needed enterprise architecture for mHealth solutions at national scale. It further commits to provide integrated mHealth solutions to 20,000 community health workers with an initial focus of reaching 1.5m pregnant women in Kenya with mHealth services; provide an affordable and convenient saving option for healthcare during their pregnancy and post natal care that suits their economic status, using its M-PESA solution that currently has over 14 million users; support the Government of Kenya with its mobile based District Health Information System expansion for community health workers, connecting them to quality health service providers via virtual call centres manned by medical professionals and access to health information on their portal and via SMS based solutions. The Safaricom leadership team will also encourage other African business, especially mobile phone providers in other countries in Africa, to make similar commitments to the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy.
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SingleHop (September 2010) SingleHop commits by fighting IP theft and human abuse such as child pornography, and empowering women. Through its AbuseShield.org site, SingleHop will mobilize the online community to report illegal, inhumane, and malicious content and help authorities and hosting companies around the world keep track of and eliminate such content.
TeleConsult Group (September 2011) TeleConsult Group commits to improve women’s and children’s health through information technologies. TeleConsult Group will establish a 24x7 Contact Center with a trained, skilled team from its m-health project to link mothers and children, and nurses in rural areas with urban- based doctors, and keep real-time digital records. An estimated 1 million mothers and children will benefit from the program next year, and 10 million in the next 5 years.
TMA Development, Training & Consulting (September 2010) TMA Development, Training & Consulting (Egypt) commits by pledging, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity, to help eradicate illiteracy among Egyptian women and to empower them towards earning and making a better life.
Vestergaard Frandsen (September 2011) Vestergaard Frandsen commits support to the UN Secretary-General's Every Woman Every Child effort to improve women's and children's health. The company's contribution comes through its ongoing LifeStraw Carbon For Water programme, a ten-year project that has brought safe water to 880,000 homes in western Kenya through an initial investment of USD 30 million. This means that more than 2 million women and nearly 800,000 children under the age of five now have markedly improved chances of avoiding the waterborne illnesses that threaten their lives and thereby impede broader development. Through LifeStraw Carbon For Water, Vestergaard Frandsen provides free products (LifeStraw Family water filters) and services (education, training, repair, and replacement) that will help move the population of Kenya's Western Province closer to achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals. The project ensures that women and children have safe drinking water and thereby supports maternal and child health along the entire length of the WHO's continuum of care. In addition, through partnerships with the UN, the Kenyan government, and local stakeholders, Vestergaard Frandsen is achieving gains for women and children's health in western Kenya, and will continue to do so over the next ten years of the LifeStraw Carbon For Water project.
ViiV Healthcare (September 2010) ViiV Healthcare commits $47 million between 2010-2015, and an additional $31 million through to 2020 to tackle mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT). ViiV Healthcare has targeted 80%
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of the Positive Action for Children Fund’s support to sub-Saharan Africa to respond to where the global burden of MTCT is greatest. The Fund is an important part of ViiV Healthcare’s overall mission to deliver advances in treatment and care for people living with and communities affected by HIV.
Viyellatex Group (September 2011) The Viyellatex Group has committed to Every Woman Every Child to provide free medical services, including eye care, immunization, and clinical services to 3500 mothers and 1500 children in Bangladesh by 2015, to provide free ultrasonograms and medicines to 3500 pregnant women, and to start a school for the physically challenged and underprivileged children by July 2012.
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Health Care Professional Associations
(3 commitments, 8 stakeholders)
Council of International Neonatal Nurses (September 2011) The Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN) remains committed to providing education and advocacy regarding improving neonatal health outcomes. We commit to supporting the education of those nurses that take care of neonates by linking resources already available with our regional network partners in over 60 countries and developing other materials on areas such as common and emerging neonatal infections that are impacting Millennium Development Goal 4 (child mortality). Our advocacy will engage and contribute to the adoption of policies related to supporting maternal-child health and decreasing risky behaviors, and, when possible, providing spokespersons on maternal-child health issues.
Edna Adan University Hospital (September 2011) Since our referral hospital was opened in Hargeisa in 2002, we have cared for women with unimaginable obstetrical complications. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) among women admitted to our hospital is now 390/100,000, or 25% of the national average, estimated at 1,600/100,000. The Global Strategy has given the Edna Adan University Hospital an additional incentive to work even harder towards further improving the health of our women and children. The initial reduction of 75% of the MMR of women treated in our hospital was brought about by training more midwives and having a 24/hour readiness to deal with emergencies. We believe a MMR of 150/100,000 is achievable and have set ourselves this goal. Having pioneered the training of nurses and midwives in the region, we are also even more committed to further improving and accelerating our Midwifery Training programmes. We will continue to monitor, supervise and guide our past graduates while training 1,000 Public Health Midwives during the coming six years.
Health Care Professionals Associations (HCPA) (September 2010) The Health Care Professionals Associations (HCPA) of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (FIGO, ICM, ICN, IPA, RANZCOG, RCOG, SOGC, WFSA) collectively commit US$31, 218,000, of which $15 million represents in kind contribution over the next five years through support to Ministries of Health, District governments, UN agencies and Bi-laterals in 25 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the International Confederation of Midwives, the International Council of Nurses, and the International Pediatric Association are committed to continuing their close collaboration with the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, the International Pharmaceutical Federation, and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. The HCPAs are also committed to working with policy and implementing agencies to improve quality and to extend coverage of the key 22 Countdown supported interventions in these high-burden countries by at least 20% over the next five years.
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International Confederation of Midwives (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
International Council of Nurses (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
International Pediatrics Association (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
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Academic, research and training institutions
(13 commitments, 14 stakeholders)
Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan (September 2011) The Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan (CHPS) commits to try to bridge the gap between research generation and policy formulation. We will try to ensure that evidence generated in Pakistan in the field of maternal, newborn and child health reaches the policy makers. This work is underway, including through consultations with stakeholders. Potential priorities include: •annual professional events to focus on and disseminate health evidence, e.g., conferences; •strengthening of Pakistani institutes to offer courses on advocacy, abstract writing, journal paper writing, etc; •review of medical curricula to add research capacity development at undergraduate levels; •public advocacy events, e.g. marathons; •use of print and electronic media as effective dissemination methods.
Global Student Forum (September 2011) The Youth at School (Y@S) represented at the GSF2011 (Edinburgh, September 8th, 2011) commit to raise awareness, among at least 30,000 of our peers and 300,000 members of our wider communities in Scotland, of the avoidable mortality among mothers and babies in low- income countries and of the Global Strategy, and to fund-raise for charities working directly to reduce this unacceptable burden. We commit to being part of the global community of Y@S and to add our voice to those of our peers in low-income countries in calling for action to ensure adolescent girls can avoid early pregnancy, and mothers and babies can remain alive and healthy.
icddr,b (September 2011) Icddr,b commits to eliminate maternal mortality at its Matlab field site, by reducing complications in delivery, particularly post-partum hemorrhaging, by creating comprehensive emergency obstetric facilities at Matlab, by training obstetric, nursing, and hospital staff to support complicated deliveries, and by providing training for midwives to improve the quality of home- based births.
Institute for Global Health of Barcelona (September 2010) Institute for Global Health of Barcelona, ISGlobal commits to engage in an inclusive and participatory process, advocate for this process and help develop and promote a multi- disciplinary and coordinated global research agenda in the context of the Global Strategy in Europe and internationally that can be actionable by donors and the academic community. This work will help to develop a common strategy for indicators and benchmarks for donors and
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governments to monitor progress, develop a common strategy to inform and allocate resources more effectively and equitably, promote research in political & economic areas and its translation into useful information for discussion with policy makers to develop tools that are specific to improve women’s and children’s health status, such as microbicides and vaccines and test if these products can benefit those that need them the most. CRESIB and ISGlobal will host the 2011 biannual meeting of Federation of the European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH) under the motto ‘Global Change, Migration and Health’ IS Global will use this event and other upcoming forums to promote Women’s and Children’s health among academia and researchers.
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (September 2011) The Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM,A) is an academic institution which purpose is to carry out and promote research, education and services mainly in the fields of tropical medicine and health care in low and middle income countries (LMIC). ITM,A commits to promoting women and children's health through engaging in the training of the current and next generation of global health professionals, conducting research for reducing suffering and death from health problems and contributing to policy development. Every academic year, with financial support from Belgian cooperation, we train 12 participants from low and middle-income countries (LMIC) in a full MPH course in Reproductive Health, and a further 6 participants in a 2-month short course in Reproductive Health; and we will recruit and coach two PhD candidates on a maternal and neonatal/child health topic. By 2012, ITM,A commits to setting up a new Research Center in Women's & Child Health. It will involve more than 15 highly experienced researchers coming from various disciplines such as obstetrics, pediatrics, public health, social sciences. This new center will focus on evidence-based interventions for reducing morbidity and mortality of women and children and on maternal and children health policy evaluation research.
International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (September 2011) The International Federation of Medical Students' Associations commits to work with key stakeholders in learning institutions to review the content on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health (RMNCH) of medical curricula in 10-12 countries by Sept 2012, and further high burden countries by 2015. The aim would be to identify areas to strengthen in the curricula to optimise learning on local and national RMNCH and health systems needs, and on the global consensus on essential RMNCH interventions. Country reports will be produced and used to advocate for and inform improvements in the education of future medical professionals to improve women's and children's health. This commitment will be carried out in collaboration with the academic, research and training and health care professional training constituencies of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH). Together with these constituencies, the IFMSA also commits to raise awareness among medical students in high-income countries of the burden of poor health borne by women and children in low-income countries and of the Global Strategy, advocating for inclusion of at least one session on these issues in every undergraduate curriculum by 2014.
International Partnership for Microbicides (September 2010)
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International Partnership for Microbicides commits to support the implementation of the Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health by continuing to progress microbicide research and product delivery through the next five years so that women throughout the world can have new tools to safeguard their health and that of their families. IPM, inspired by the urgent need of women at risk of HIV infection and supported by the data from CAPRISA 004, is committed to turning this hope into a scientific reality.
Medsin Aberdeen (September 2011) Medsin Aberdeen commits to raise awareness among the constituency of medical students at the University of Aberdeen of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health for achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5. By September 2012, we commit to have held at least 2 awareness-raising events. We also commit to liaise with University teaching coordinators to advocate for inclusion in the medical curriculum of information on the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 and the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health.
Other Academic and Research Institutes (September 2010) A number of other academic and research Institutes across Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa have already enthusiastically endorsed the Global Strategy. In response to the Secretary- General’s call for action, they have indicated their intention to promote women and children’s health through conducting research for reducing illness and death, engaging in the training of the current and next generation of global health professionals, and contributing to policy development over the coming years. They include: University of Aberdeen, Aga Khan University, University of Ghent, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Consortium of Universities of Global Health representing 60 leading North American member Universities and their university partners in low and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and North America, and researchers at the University of Toronto, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (September 2010) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62]
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (September 2011) [Committed with Health Care Professionals Associations: see commitment page 62] The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is committed to reducing maternal and newborn mortality. We draw on the experience of our global network of members to make an effective contribution to improving sexual and reproductive healthcare. Some of our projects are delivered in partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who have extensive experience of management and delivery of courses. Our work involves: •Advocacy – to raise awareness of maternal health at local/global levels
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•Technical assistance – capacity development through training, exchange programmes and setting of standards and guidelines that can be adapted locally •Strategic programme work – working with governments and international organisations to improve quality of care/assistance with monitoring and evaluation. •Fellowship programme – sending trained doctors to specific sites, for between 3-months/1 year, where along with midwives, anaesthetists and paediatricians build capacity by structural development, training of healthcare workers, development of risk assessment, triaging and referral capability. •Outcome assessment – develop the appropriate audit capability to assess maternal and child morbidity and mortality. This is important to support the ongoing aid provision. The ultimate aim is to capacity build with a sustained local workforce with the appropriate training, network structure and facilities with an increasing reduced need for external input.
Royal Medical Society , University of Edinburgh (September 2011) The Royal Medical Society (RMS) commits to raise awareness among our members of medical students at the University of Edinburgh of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health for achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5. By 1st September 2012, we commit to have held at least one awareness-raising event. We also commit to advertising the Global Strategy through links on our website and to promote our support at RMS events run throughout the year.
RTI International (September 2011) RTI is an independent non-profit research institute. Staff of more than 2,800 provide research and technical expertise to the public and private sectors in more than 40 countries. A major focus of RTI's international work is in health research; health technology development; health systems and policy; and monitoring and evaluation. RTI's commitment is through the creation and implementation of the MANDATE initiative. MANDATE is an initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to inform the development of effective technologies to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare in low resource settings. More than 98% of global maternal and neonatal deaths occur in low resource settings. Delivering innovative and appropriate technologies across the continuum of care-- including technologies for frontline workers to use in homes, communities and first level clinics-- may improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce mortality. The MANDATE Model will allow users to analyze each condition, and associated prevention, diagnostic, and treatment interventions, to ascertain the impact on lives saved for mothers and newborns. MANDATE's mission is to inform resource allocation decisions by foundations and the larger global health community by providing an interactive model to assess the conditions and technology improvements with the greatest potential for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in low-resource settings, with an emphasis on home and community settings.
University of Aberdeen (September 2011) The University of Aberdeen commits in the period up to 2015 over US $500,000 of institutional resources to sustain its Immpact unit dedicated to improving maternal and newborn health.
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Immpact will support at least 10 low-income countries to identify maternal and newborn health research priorities, to generate new evidence to improve and assure the quality of care at birth received by mothers and babies, and to utilise this evidence in policy and programme decision- making. Immpact will work with global and bi-lateral agencies in the implementation of the COIA recommendations, particularly with regard to maternal and perinatal death audits and quality improvement. Immpact will spearhead an initiative (Y@U) with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health to engage the youth constituency at universities in the global North and South in mobilising support and promoting accountability for keeping mothers and babies alive and well.
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Additional endorsements
(50 organizations)
In addition to other commitments, the following organizations have expressed their endorsement of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health:
• 34 Million Friends of UNFPA • International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance) • Academy for Educational Development • Ipas • Advance Family Planning • International Pediatric Association (IPA) • JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health • International Women’s Health Coalition • African Medical and Research Foundation • IntraHealth International (AMREF) •Japanese Organization for International • Africa Public Health Alliance & 15 Percent Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP) Plus Campaign • Live Alive Foundation Nigeria • Amnesty International • Management Sciences for Health • Amhara Development Association • March of Dimes Foundation • Azad India Foundation • mothers2mothers • Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) • Nari Unnayan Sangstha • Centre for Development and Population • Nestle Activities (CEDPA) • Partners in Health • Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) • PATH • ChildFund International • Pathfinder International • Children’s Project International • Project Concern International (PCI) • EngenderHealth • Project C.U.R.E. • FHI • RESULTS International • German Foundation for World Population • Safe Motherhood Program (DSW) • Dept of Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, • Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Univ. of California Stillbirth • School of Medicine, University of Zambia • Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS) • Space Allies • Guttmacher Institute • US Coalition for Child Survival • Health Alliance International • VSO United Kingdom • Ibis Reproductive Health • Women & Children First UK • Institute of Tropical Medicine • Women And Health Alliance (WAHA) • International Budget Partnership (IBP)
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