The global campaign theme for World Malaria Day in the coming years is Invest in the future. Defeat malaria. World Malaria Day was instituted by WHO Member States during the 2007 World Health Assembly. It is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. It is also an opportunity for new … Read More
Healthcare in Africa 2014: Fast-Tracking to the Future
How can we accelerate progress in Africa’s healthcare systems? Africa’s healthcare systems are at a critical turning point. The reforms that governments undertake over the next decade will be crucial to cutting mortality rates and improving health outcomes in the continent. Building on the success of previous events in the series, Healthcare in Africa 2014 will focus on learning lessons from Africa’s … Read More
Seeking Private Sector Input: Consultations for the New Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Child
The Global Finance Facility (GFF) was proposed at a high-level “Every Woman Every Child” event during the 69th UN General Assembly in New York, as a new instrument to build long-term domestic and international funding commitments for women’s and children’s health. The GFF Working Group has requested the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) to co-ordinate a wide-ranging … Read More
The Latest 2014 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Reports
As we near the final year marker for the Millennium Development Goals, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival, and the Independent Expert Review Group have released reports on the current progress of health programming to reduce the burden of death and disease, the gaps in programming, financing and infrastructure, and … Read More
World Water Summit 2014: A Time for Action
The world has woken up to the dangerous consequences of the looming water crisis. Demand is rising rapidly thanks to industrialization, population growth, climate change and the planet’s growing need for food, yet nature has decreed that supply is fixed. With agriculture, homes, factories and offices consuming water in ever greater quantities, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning that by … Read More
1st Annual Pan-African Malaria Control Association Conference
The Pan-African Malaria Control Association (PAMCA), Africa’s first network of vector control professionals, is excited to announce its first conference focused on the “Challenges of Vector Control in the Malaria Eradication Era” on October 6th – 8th in Nairobi, Kenya. PAMCA objectives include promoting the study, prevention and control of mosquito-borne diseases; developing and implementing new materials, techniques and tools … Read More
Saving Lives at Birth DevelopmentXChange
From July 30 – August 1, 52 finalists will compete in the final stage of the fourth Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development at a DevelopmentXChange in Washington, D.C. The DevelopmentXChange is a key feature of the Saving Lives at Birth program and serves as the first step in building a community of innovators to tackle this … Read More
Latest report in RBM’s Progress & Impact Series launches at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
In the margins of the annual High-Level Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, RBM gathered health and development leaders from the UN and diplomatic communities to launch the latest report in its Progress & Impact Series to help assess progress towards targets set out in the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) and the … Read More
Capitalizing on Competencies: Partnering to Eliminate Malaria and Accelerate Impact on Maternal and Child Health
The 2014 GBCHealth/Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa Annual Technical Forum On July 2, 2014, the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA), in partnership with Access Bank, Friends of the Global Fund Africa, GBCHealth and the Nigerian Ministry of Health, will convene a private sector-targeted workshop to explore the integration of malaria and maternal and child health (MCH) programs … Read More
GBCHealth Honors Laerdal’s Commitment to Maternal and Newborn Health
25 June 2014 – Laerdal Global Health was today announced as the 2014 winner of the Richard C. Holbrooke Business Leadership Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Health, GBCHealth’s most prestigious honor. The award recognizes Laerdal Global Health’s exceptional contribution to the health of hundreds of thousands of mothers and babies across the developing world. Eremine Kabanshi, Minister of Community … Read More