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| Women
Deliver Global Conference |
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: 18-20 October, 2007 |
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Women
Deliver marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of
the global Safe Motherhood Initiative in Kenya at London's
Excel Conference and Exhibition Centre on October 18
to 20, 2007. More than 1,500 politicians including Ministers
from Africa and Asia, human rights activists, NGOs,
faith based organizations, health professionals and
economists met to assess progress made in preventing
maternal deaths and promoting child survival. The conference
was co-sponsored by a partnership of UN agencies, including
the World Bank, WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF; the official
international assistance agencies of the United Kingdom,
Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and several International
NGOs.
Mr.
Harry with Dr. Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of
UNFPA, H.E. Mr. Omwony Ojwok, Treasurer of PPD and Honorable
Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Planning and
Economic Development, Government of Uganda and Dr. Jotham
Musinguzi, Director, PPD Africa Regional Office
Mr.
Harry Jooseery, PPD Executive Director and Dr. Jotham
Musinguzi, PPD Africa Regional Office Director participated
at the conference and advocated the promotion of Reproductive
Health, Population and Development through South-South
Cooperation. A corporate video of PPD was launched at
the meeting through the Global Health TV.
Donors,
government officials, corporations, foundations and
non-governmental organizations pledged their commitment
to invest in women’s health and to make achievement
of Millennium Development Goal #5 (improve maternal
health) “a high priority on the national, regional
and international health agenda.”
The
three-day conference included a grant announcement of
more than US$200 million from the United Kingdom to
UNFPA to advance women’s reproductive health worldwide;
a US$11 million investment by the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation in distributing new technology
against blood loss after childbirth in Nigeria and India;
and a commitment from Japan to put global health at
the centre of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Japan
next year.
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