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- 20 October, 2007
Women
Deliver Global Conference
Kenya —
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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