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March 15, 2007
Meeting of Women Parliamentarians
Liya Speaks to the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians on Maternal and Newborn Health
Liya Kebede addressed the meeting of Women Parliamentarians in London organized by WHO’s Department of Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS). The meeting was aimed at exploring better ways to work with countries to identify cost-effective, implementable solutions, that are in keeping with a continuum of care approach, to maternal and newborn health challenges.
To show her support for mothers and children, Ms Kebede discussed the launch of the World Health Organization’s global campaign: Make Your Mother’s Day, Every Day. The campaign celebrates the importance of healthy Mothers.
In the last decade, over 7 million women have died from complications during pregnancy and childbirth and millions more suffer short and long term disabilities. And close to half a million children die from preventable causes in her country of Ethiopia each year and nearly 6 million under fives die annually in Africa. She summed up by stating that ensuring skilled care at every birth, the World Health Organization has invested in human resources for health, will promoted better family planning, and given greater access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, to aid in the prevention and management of maternal complications and death.
Currently only half of the developed countries have agreed upon 0.7 % of their GDP on assistance. The Global Plan of Action brings together policy-makers and civil society leaders to redouble efforts and strengthen the health system in countries where investment in maternal, newborn and child health is drastically low. The call to action being signed at the Meeting by Members of Parliament from all over the world asks donor countries to revitalize efforts to reduce the global burden—of maternal and newborn ill-health, especially among the poor. “We don’t need new solutions to ease the costs of ill-health to women, their babies, households and communities.”
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