health and maternal/child survival

Conference on Technical Cooperation in Implementation of the Strategies for the Child Survival and Development Programme and Health for All by the Year 2000

Conference on Technical Co-operation in Implementation of the Strategies for the Child Survival and Development Programme and Health for All by the Year 2000

Medical or nursing care or supervision of healthy infant under circumstances such as:adverse socioeconomic conditions at home | awaiting foster or adoptive placement | maternal illness | number of children at home preventing or interfering with normal care

Make Every Mother and Child Count: Report on Maternal and Child Health in Canada

WHO/UNICEF Common Goals for the Health of Women and Children in the 1990s

Mother and Child International [ MCI | International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health ]

child health and survival

Considers that addressing the issue of malnutrition is of critical importance, as it continues to be a major health burden in developing countries; to this end, calls for specific investments in food, health and nutrition, recognising that improving the nutrition of mothers and children is key to eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable growth;

D. whereas the G8 has agreed a package on health that will help the training and recruitment of 1,5 million health workers in Africa and will ensure that 80% of mothers are accompanied in childbirth by a trained health worker; whereas this includes a commitment to upscale to 2,3 health workers per 1 000 people in 36 African countries experiencing a critical shortage; whereas, however, there is no mention of ring-fencing the USD 10 billion which civil society activists claim would be required to save the lives of six million mothers and children each year,

Regrets the decision of the US government to decrease its financial support for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA); points to the UNFPA's instrumental role in achieving a voluntary decline of fertility rates in less developed countries; believes that access to contraceptives and reproductive services, the empowerment of girls and women, and the promotion of maternal and child health are crucial strategies for slowing population growth and maintaining resource sustainability; urges, therefore, the US government to increase its funding f ...[+++]or the UNFPA;

159. Recalls children's right to health and, in particular, adolescents' right to sexual and reproductive health and stresses that the protection of maternal health must be an integral part of the future EU strategy on the rights of the child, which should promote living and working conditions suitable for pregnant and breastfeeding women and insist on compliance with the existing legislation protecting the rights of female workers, as well as equal and universal access for all women to quality pre- and post-natal care in the public sector in order to reduce maternal and infant mortality and transmission of diseases from mother to child; ...[+++] stresses the vital importance that maternity leave has for a child's development, particularly on account of the child's bond with its mother not only during the early months following birth but also during the first years of its life;