Pressure is increasing on world leaders in the run up to this year’s G8 Summit in July in Japan to provide long term funding for proven and essential life-saving interventions. At the Countdown to 2015 conference in Cape Town on 15th April 2008, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health launched a Call to Action to G8 and other donors for an additional US $10.2 billion annually. Securing this sum would ensure the universal coverage of maternal, newborn and child health interventions needed to meet MDGs 4 and 5.
Saving Lives
Up to half a million women and three million newborn babies die each year in pregnancy and childbirth or soon afterwards, the majority of them in Africa and South Asia. For every woman who dies at least twenty more suffer complications which leave them with lifelong disability and pain.
Our unique programmes are saving the lives of mothers and babies every day. We need you to help us to equip women with their most vital survival tool: knowledge.
