Putting women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health at the heart of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

Details	Wednesday, December 7, 2016; 9:00am-10:00am EST
Location	Adobe Connect
Presenters	Giorgiana Rosa, Senior Health Policy and Advocacy Adviser, Save the Children, will present Save the Children’s report A Common Cause: reaching every woman and child through Universal Health Coverage  Helga Fogstad, Executive Director, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, will highlight the importance of UHC for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

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Secretary-General Appoints High-Level Group for Every Woman Every Child

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the first members of the High-level Advisory Group for Every Woman Every Child (EWEC). They will help provide leadership for women's, children's and adolescents' health during the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Michelle Bachelet Jeria, President of Chile, and Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, are the co-chairs for the Group, with Tarja Halonen, former President of the Republic of Finland, and Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, former President of Tanzania, as alternate Co-Chairs...

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PMNCH Partners Forum: Parallel Session 4E

July 2014 • 2.30 pm - 3.40 pm

Join us for an interactive chat show style discussion at parallel session 4E of the PMNCH Partners Forum. Coupling recent scientific evidence with experience, panellists will present the need for SRHR and family planning to be directly included in the post-2015 agenda from the perspectives of health, equity, human rights, poverty alleviation, gender, and youth. and especially on improved maternal, newborn, and child health.

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PMHCH 2014 Partners’ Forum begins in Johannesburg, South Africa:

Now it is in our hands

The 2014 Partners’ Forum for the Partnership on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) opened today in Johannesburg, with delegates gathered to consider all that still needs to be done in the next 500 days for women’s and children’s health.

Following video messages from former US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton and Ban Ki Moon, United Nations Secretary General, Mrs Graça Machel, PMNCH Chair and African Ambassador for A Promised Renewed, opened the Forum saying “we come with a united message that the needless deaths of women, newborns and children must stop“. She spoke of the importance of using this moment to draw on the lessons learned from the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to date and in looking forward to the next 500 days ahead. She remarked that contributions from unique partnerships such as PMNCH as well as individual contribution and accountability are vital and urged participants to create a social pact to save every single life possible in every single country. “We must do more and we must do better”, she said, “we must push and push then push some more, we have 500 days, every day accounts, every action counts and every life counts”.

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Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) is the major coordinating mechanism for the implementation of the Global Strategy for Women and Children’s Health (GSWCH).

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