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‘The Lancet’ on achieving maternal health goals in the SDG era: Tackling diversity and divergence
From MDGs to SDGs: Implications for maternal newborn health in Africa
One Year Anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Where Are We Now?
One of the defining features of the SDGs is an increased emphasis on equity and data disaggregation. Whereas the Millennium Development Goals were largely focused on improving global and regional outcomes on average, the SDGs call for efforts to improve outcomes at the national and local levels with specific attention to vulnerable populations. The SDG agenda requires access to accurate, disaggregated data and data infrastructure. Strong health information systems are necessary for collecting, measuring and tracking data in order to quantify progress…read more
Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week: The Role of Breastfeeding in Achieving the SDGs
A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival: Lessons From Countdown to 2015 for Monitoring and Accountability in the SDG Era
Zulfiqar Bhutta and Mickey Chopra are co-chairs of Countdown to 2015. “Ten years from now, in 2015,” said the opening line of the first Countdown to 2015 report, published in 2005, “the governments of the world will meet to assess if we have achieved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the most widely ratified set of … Continue reading “A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival: Lessons From Countdown to 2015 for Monitoring and Accountability in the SDG Era”
WHO Guidelines to Accelerate the Realization of the SDGs
As we transition from the MDGs to the SDGs it is imperative to accelerate momentum to improve maternal and child health. An updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health builds on new evidence that includes the need to focus on strengthening health systems and improving the quality of health services. The World Health … Continue reading “WHO Guidelines to Accelerate the Realization of the SDGs”
Achieving SDG Targets for Maternal, Newborn and Stillbirth: Does the World Know What it Takes?
So the Millennium Development goals are gone and now we have a new song, perhaps a pleasant one but also a less clear song than that of the MDGs. This new song is that of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are about everything but in health we have only one of 17 goals, … Continue reading “Achieving SDG Targets for Maternal, Newborn and Stillbirth: Does the World Know What it Takes?”
Maintaining the Focus on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health With Innovation and the SDGs
As we reflect on the work that we’ve accomplished through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and plan for the next set of global commitments (the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs), it’s important to talk about the inextricable link between mothers and their children. This link is both biological and social and has critical implications for health systems. With this knowledge, it is important that maternal and child health professionals work together and look at the continuum of maternal, newborn and child health in an integrated fashion, without forgetting any of these critical elements. But what is integration?… read more
Strengthening Maternal Health Financing Indicators – A Conversation With Dr. Aminu Garba
In 2018, the What Women Want campaign listened to the healthcare demands of 1.2 million women and girls in 114 countries to amplify their voices and better understand what they want for their own reproductive and maternal health. Free and affordable care and full functioning, geographically reachable health facilities were among the top demands. All … Continue reading “Strengthening Maternal Health Financing Indicators – A Conversation With Dr. Aminu Garba”