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- Accelerating universal access to reproductive health: Countries leading the way
[ www.who.org ]
Languages: English
Case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nepal, and Rwanda: The case studies highlight policy innovations to improve and accelerate access to sexual and reproductive health, improved outcomes, and continuing actions to achieve universal access. WHO, 2011
- Working towards universal coverage of maternal, newborn and child health interventions
[ www.who.org ]
Languages: English
More than 100 million children under five were underweight in 2010.
While maternal and child mortality have declined globally by about a third since 1990, overall progress is insufficient. The lowest annual rates of decline are in the African and Eastern Mediterranean region. Coverage of effective interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health has remained uneven and is low for those interventions that cannot be scheduled. Quality of services remains a concern in many settings, leading to gaps in the continuum of care. National data on coverage levels often hide important disparities among population subgroups. Furthermore, too few countries have adopted recent evidence-based policies to increase access to essential reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions.
Progress report, WHO, 2011
- Maternal, infant and young child nutrition: implementation plan
[ www.who.org ]
Languages: English
More than 100 million children under five were underweight in 2010.
Additionally, more women are becoming overweight, increasing the risk of birth complications. Progress report on a plan to tackle problems of poor nutrition through awareness campaigns and policies involving health, education and agriculture. WHO, 2011
- New commitments to save women and children
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Sixteen countries announced new commitments to dramatically reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality, as part of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. Nine of the 16 countries represent the African continent, in addition to the 18 commitments made in September 2010 by African States. The commitments include measures such as contraceptive use, attended childbirth, improved access to emergency obstetric care, PMCHT and childhood immunization. United Nations, 2011
- Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008
[ www.unicef.org ]
Languages: English
Millennium development goal (MDG) 5 Target 5A calls for the reduction of maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. It has been a challenge to assess the extent of progress due to the lack of reliable and accurate maternal mortality data - particularly in developing-country settings where maternal mortality is high. As part on going efforts, the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank revised and improved earlier methods to estimate maternal mortality in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2008; and developed methodology to present trends in maternal mortality from 1990 to 2008 at country, regional, and global levels. WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank, 2010
- Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
[ http://www.who.int/ ]
Languages: English
Every year around 8 million young children die of preventable causes, and more than 350,000 women die from preventable complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. These unacceptable deaths can and must be avoided by ensuring that all women and children get the prevention, treatment and care they need.
With just five years left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2010 presents us with a historic opportunity. The“Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health” sets out how we can work together to save women and children. Over the past year, supported by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-moon, leaders from government, international organizations, business, academia, philanthropy, health professional associations and civil society have come together to develop this strategy, recognizing that the health of women and children is key to progress on all development goals.
- Countdown for maternal and child survival
[ www.unicef.org ]
Languages: English
Online Slideshow: The Countdown to 2015 is a global partnership for renewed action in achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF, 2008
- WHO: Gender and reproductive rights
[ www.who.int ]
Languages: English
Includes feature pages, a collection of programming tools, and information on training and resources
- WHO: Reproductive Health and Research
[ www.who.int ]
Languages: English
All the issues of reproductive health
- UNFPA: Improving Reproductive Health
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
- Deliver Now for Women & Children
[ http://www.who.int/ ]
Languages: English
UN-backed global drive to slash maternal and child deaths
- Renew - The Campaign to End Fistula
[ www.endfistula.org ]
Languages: English | French
Obstetric fistula is a devastating injury of childbearing that leaves women with agonising pain, chronic incontinence and - in most cases - a stillborn baby. The global Campaign to End Fistula currently covers more than 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Arab region. The goal is to make fistula as rare in developing countries as it is in the industrialized world. UNFPA, 2006
- Worldbank: Population & Reproductive Health
[ www1.worldbank.org ]
Languages: English
- UNRISD: Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Charting the Course of Transnational Women's NGOs
[ www.unrisd.org ]
Languages: English
Paper on the role played by transnational women's NGOs in the 1990s in the creation and implementation of international agreements related to reproductive and sexual rights, 2000
- WHO: Advancing Safe Motherhood through Human Rights
[ http://www.who.int/ ]
Languages: English
This report considers how human rights laws can be applied to relieve the estimated 1,400 deaths world-wide that occur every day, an annual mortality rate of 515,000, that women suffer because they are pregnant.
- FAO: Provision of reproductive health services in sub-saharan Africa: Lessons, issues, challenges and the overlooked rural majority
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
2000 paper
- FAO: TSS thematic workshop on male involvement in sexual and reproductive health programmes and services
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Background information on 1999 workshop
- UNFPA: Improving Reproductive Health
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
- UNFPA: Reproductive Health Fact Sheet
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
fact sheet
- UNFPA: Making Motherhood Safer - Caring for Mothers in Their Time of Need
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
- UNFPA: Maternal Mortality Update 2002 – A Focus on Emergency Obstetric Care
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
[ PDF ]
- UNFPA: A Time Between - Empower Girls to Delay Pregnancy until Physical and Emotional Maturity
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
Article
- UNFPA: Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health -- Links through the Life Cycle
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English
Key issues related to reproductive health and rights that affect women throughout their lives
- UNDPI: The Right to Reproductive and Sexual Health
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Overview of women's reproductive health
- Women Deliver: A Global Conference
[ http://www.womendeliver.org/ ]
Languages: English
Women Deliver is a landmark global conference that will focus on creating political will to save the lives and improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around the world. It will be held October 18-20, 2007, at the ExCel Centre in London. UNFPA, UNICEF, World Bank, WHO, 2007
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