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This article was originally published by World Bank. When I joined in 2019 as the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), I couldn’t have imagined that just one year later I would be writing with such alarm for the health and well-being of the...
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Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths within a Generation This article was originally published on the Health Policy Plus Viewpoints blog. This past August, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ministers of health from 26 countries[1] took a major leap forward when they signed a ministerial declaration committing to end Preventable Maternal,...
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Originally published on Maternal Health Task Force. By Kayla McGowan, Project Coordinator, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Six months after the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference (GMNHC) held in Mexico City last October and just weeks before the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen, leaders in...
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Amid the wave of activity for World Breastfeeding Week this year was the endorsement by 30 organizations (see below) of a Call to Action on a neglected area of breastfeeding support that is of particular benefit to the most vulnerable newborns: human milk banks.
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