New Global
Campaign Promotes Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Deliver Now for Women & Children is a new global campaign to
reduce maternal and child deaths. The Deliver Now campaign will draw
the world's attention to the more than ten million deaths of women and
children which occur each year, mainly in developing nations. Most of these
deaths can be prevented through greater political commitment, increased
investment in health services and support for communities to demand better
access to quality health care.
Deliver Now is a crucial component of a broader Global Campaign
for the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which is being
spear-headed by the leaders of Norway, Great Britain and Canada.
The campaign's aim is to reinvigorate action towards the 2015 health
targets agreed to by the global community in 2000, for which progress has
been very slow. UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 & 5 call for a
reduction in child deaths of two thirds by 2015 (compared to 1990) and a
reduction in maternal mortality of three quarters during the same time
frame.
On 5 September 2007 in London, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other
world leaders launched the first initiative of the Global Campaign, the
International Health Partnership (IHP). This calls for coordinated aid
to countries in need thereby building stronger health systems.
On 26 September 2007 Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will
unveil Deliver Now during the Clinton Global Initiative annual
meeting - part of a series of events to launch the campaign in New York.
This is the second initiative of the Global Campaign for the Health MDGs.
Prime Minister Stoltenberg will launch a "Network of Global
Leaders" to provide political momentum and promote investment in
mother and child health services. The global launch will be followed by
regional launches and country action to begin in 2008. The campaign is
being coordinated by The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child
Health.
Key celebrities have endorsed the Deliver Now campaign.
Deliver
Now press release [pdf 43kb]
Communiqué
de presse [pdf 40kb]
Comunicado
de prensa [pdf 36kb]
Deliver
Now media advisory [pdf 34kb]
Deliver
Now UN Panel Discussion
Other public launch events
Photo
gallery of mothers and children
Messages
of endorsement for Deliver Now [pdf 22kb]
See also
International
Health Partnership (IHP)
The
Partnership supports IHP
Global
Business Plan meeting, 2-3 July 2007
New global campaign promotes maternal,
newborn & child health: 1,2,3
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