Archive: Mon Oct 2015

Opening the GMNHC2015: Seizing the Moment for Maternal and Newborn Health

October 19, 2015

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This morning’s opening plenary session opened with a video, #Moments Matter, which laid out the task that the maternal, newborn and related communities now face: ensuring that every woman is empowered to decisions about…

A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival: Lessons From Countdown to 2015 for Monitoring and Accountability in the SDG Era

October 19, 2015

By: Mickey Chopra, The World Bank; Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children (Canada) and Aga Khan University (Pakistan) Zulfiqar Bhutta and Mickey Chopra are co-chairs of Countdown to 2015. “Ten years from…