Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health

The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health is a program of the United Nations (UN) directed at improving women's and children's health in the developing world.

The program was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September 2010. At the time of the announcement, the program was valued at $US40 billion over a five-year period, funded by state and private donors,[1] with the UN hoping for more pledges to follow.[2] The object of the program is to save the lives of 16 million people during the period of the program.[3] The implementation of the program will be led by the World Health Organisation, reporting to the UN.[1]

The aid-based program was accompanied by pledges from some developing nations (including Tanzania and Rwanda) to increase their own domestic spending on health care.[4] According to the UN, around $8.6 million of the program's funding came from what it described as "low-income countries".[2]

International aid group Oxfam expressed doubts about the program, including the extent to which its funding was genuinely new.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Snow, Anita (22 September 2010). "UN promotes health campaign for women, children". Associated Press. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Worsnip, Patrick (22 September 2010). "U.N. chief to launch women, children health drive". Reuters. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "UN launches $40bn woman and child health plan". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). 22 September 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  4. ↑ Boseley, Sarah; Curtis, Polly (22 September 2010). "Millennium development goals: governments pledge £25.5bn to eradicate world poverty". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2010.