Reflecting on this past weekend’s G-20 summit on the global economy, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said:
“It would be incredibly short-sighted – as well as immoral – for wealthy countries to use this financial crisis to drop promises to help the poorest,” Annan said at a debate in Paris.
As the UN Dispatch blog put it: [...]

As we well know, saving women’s lives depends on access to family planning and other reproductive health services, quality care during and immediately after pregnancy and childbirth, emergency obstetric care to deal with complications, and immediate postnatal care for mothers and newborns. But, as UNFPA notes, it’s also important to have a deep understanding of the cultural [...]

Ghana’s First Lady Mrs. Theresa Kufuor called for the strengthening of partnerships aimed at funding and improving sexual and reproductive health programmes. She noted that the public health sector could not attain targets of the nation alone and called on the private health sector to be a significant contributor to the vision of the health sector.
The First Lady [...]

A note from Ann Starrs, president of Family Care International, on the U.S. election:
One of the many remarkable and heartening aspects of the 2008 U.S. election is that it has engaged the entire world. As we have already heard from countless friends, colleagues, and supporters, we are suddenly living in a time not just of [...]

Professor Jeremy Shiffman, a political scientist at Syracuse University who has a particular interest in maternal, newborn, and child health, has been developing a new field of enquiry to analyze the critical factors underlying successful political advocacy for global health causes. His case study on political priority for reducing maternal mortality was presented at the [...]