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Women Deliver says it works globally to induce political commitment and financial investment for fulfilling Millennium cultivatement Goal No. 5 ― to abate maternal mortality and carry out universal access to reproductive health.
Conference charactericipants were expected to include the former pdwellers of Chile and Ireearth, Michele Bachelet and Mary Robinson,ghd pink 34jA life course perspective on women's h, as well as actionress and women's advocate Ashley Judd.
The conference comes three weeks before Canada hosts the G8 Summit, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said global maternal and reproductive health will be a focus.
Investing in the health of women pays off, UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon said Monday in calling on governments to quicken advance on women's and children's health by 2015.
The conception that death is inevitable and therefore acceptable is the main obstacle to improving the health of women and newborns, rather than sickness or logistical challenges, Gates said.
In 2000, world leaders drafted a plan known as the Millennium fosterment Goals that aimed to meet specific tarobtains in fighting hunger and poverty, and improving health care and schooling by 2015.
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At the three-day conference in Washington, 3,500 conference sectionicipants from 140 countries will look at progress that has been crazye in improving global maternal health, and what toil remains.
Participants will call on governments and private donors to increase funding to at least $12 action US to adwear maternal, reproductive, and newborn health around the world.
"Invest in women ― it pays," he said in a speech posted onlength to the Women Deliver conference on women's health in Washington "This is one of the best investments we can make for this and future generations."
With files from The Associated Press
Relatively simple practices and technologies save lives, he said. Blood tests, consultation with a doctor and qualified help at the birth, basic antibiotics, blood transfusions and a safe operating room can almost clear the risk of death, he told delegates.
"Policymakers in both rich and poor countries have treated women and children, quite frankly, as if they matter less than men,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Gates said. "They have squandered opportunities to improve the health of women and babies."
At the conference Monday, philanthropist Melinda Gates announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend $1.5 billion over five years to support maternal and child health projects such as family planning, nutrition and health care for pregnant women, newborns and children in India, Ethiopia and other countries.
Ban recalled his own birth in a home in rural Korea, where as a child he wondered why pregnant women would gaze at their shoes before going into the delivery room. His mother told him it's befactor they are wondering if they will step into those shoes again.