News and events
Women Deliver: A Global Conference
Women Deliver is a landmark global conference being held on October 18th - 20th, 2007 at the ExCel Centre, London, that will focus on reducing maternal and newborn deaths around the world. The conference theme is Invest in Women - It Pays!
Child survival symposium and IHMEC/Lancet lecture, 'Our children: The key to our future'
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On Monday 16th October 2006 the Child Survival Symposium brought distinguished international researchers and policymakers, together with representatives from DFID, UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank and other international agencies to explore challenges to reach the Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims to reduce child mortality by two thirds by the year 2015. This event also launched the new Centre for International Health and Development, and was supported by Towards 4+5 and the Lancet. |
Session 1: Priorities for maternal and child health research. Professor Anthony Costello and Dr Veronique Filippi - download podcast (36.6MB)
Session 2: Integration of maternal and newborn health. Dr Francisco Songane - download podcast (42MB)
Session 3: Implementation of the community component of child health. Professor Betty Kirkwood - download podcast (45.7MB)
Session 4: Financing for child survival. Professor Anne Mills - download podcast (31.4MB)
The symposium was followed by the IHMEC/Lancet lecture, 'Our children: The key to our future', given by the Prime Minister of Norway, Mr Jens Stoltenberg. The Prime Minister emphasised Norway's strong commitment to Millennium Development Goal 4, and highlighted the Norway-India partnership, which aims to enhance equity, solidarity and inclusiveness.
The Prime Minister called for global action to draw attention to child survival and re-establish global committment to MDG 4. He announced a global plan for action was being supported by the UK Chancellor Gordon Brown, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health bringing all the actors together in this global effort.
Our children: The key to our future. Mr Jens Stoltenberg - download podcast (42.6MB)
Launch of the Lancet Maternal Health Series
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On September 28th 2006 The Lancet published a landmark series of papers on reducing the burden of maternal mortality in developing countries. This series represents the fourth phase of The Lancet’s campaign on child survival. The maternal survival series addresses the deaths of pregnant and recently pregnant women, who die from causes related to their pregnancy. For more information please visit the Lancet and our press page. |
Challenges and advances in international maternal and newborn health workshop - Lilongwe, Malawi
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On 19th July 2006, the Towards 4+5 consortium held a national workshop in Lilongwe, Malawi, opened by Dr W.O.O. Sangala, Secretary for Health, to discuss the challenges and advances in international maternal and newborn health. Consortium members were joined by representatives from a number of organisations including the Ministry of Health (Malawi), College of Medicine, Blantyre (Malawi), UNICEF, UNFPA and Saving Newborn Lives. Download workshop report. |
Countdown to 2015: Child Survival conference
The first in a series of two-yearly rolling reviews of progress in
child survival was held in London on 13th-14th December 2005. The conference
stimulated debate around maternal and newborn health, following the
presentation of a landmark report - Tracking Progress: Tracking Intervention
Coverage – which pulled together the latest data on the implementation
of 20 simple interventions in 60 countries where 94% child deaths under
five occur. Over 250 child survival experts, donors, key agencies and
policy makers attended this international conference, which included
presentations from a number of consortium members. www.childsurvivalcountdown.com