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World Health Day: Building Forward Fairer for Vulnerable Women, Children and Adolescents
Helga Fogstad, Executive Director& Etienne Langlois, Team Lead, Knowledge This year's World Health Day, celebrated on 7th of April, focuses on the critical need to enhance equity for the most vulnerable communities worldwide. COVID-19 has further highlighted this need, given it is unravelling the hard-fought gains made over recent decades in reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality. During 2020, coverage of lifesaving health interventions for women, children and adolescents in36 developing countries was estimated to have dropped by up to 25%. RecentUNFPA estimates indicate that across 115 low- and middle-income coun...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: adolescent health [subject], adolescent, youth, young people, teen health, teenager, adolescence, adolescents, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news

Nigerian Youth Call for Action to Improve Adolescents' Health
Deliberations center on revitalizing healthcare services threatened by COVID- 19 Marking the World Health Day, youth leaders and civil society groups from across Nigeria are urging the government to invest in equity enhancing strategies to restore crumbling services for women, newborns, children and adolescents. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - April 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: adolescent health [subject], adolescent, youth, young people, teen health, teenager, adolescence, adolescents, African Region [region], Nigeria [country], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news

Civil Society and Youth Statement on the GFF Resource Mobilization Effort
The Civil Society and Youth constituency applauds the Global Financing Facility ’s leadership, investors, and strong country-led approach which has led to the realization of atrack record of success and key learnings that informed the GFF ’snew five-year strategy. Among the remarkable progress to date is the fact that 32% of the 36 GFF countries are using domestic resources to fund 50% of the current investment cases, with a target goal of 75% between 2021-2025. We further appreciate the GFF ’s early and quickpivot to support countries ’ strategic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions through the provisio...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Press release [doctype] Source Type: news

PMNCH named "high scorer" on gender equality in global health
PMNCH has been recognized as a high-scoring organization in the latest annual report from Global Health 50/50,Gender equality: Flying blind in a time of crisis. The 2021 report reviewed 201 organizations to assess how gender equality is being advanced within organizations and health programmes, taking an in-depth look at gender in health-related COVID-19 responses. PMNCH was ranked in the top 20% of the sample overall, which includes UN organizations, governmental agencies, international NGOs, research organizations, private sector companies and others. Assessed against 14 variables across four dimensions using a traffic ...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - March 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: gender [subject], gender inequality Source Type: news

PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19
The world is facing a global health pandemic without a clear end in sight. Covid-19 presents a massive shock to already struggling health systems globally and the world economy. Countries are grappling with how best to address mortality and morbidity due to the virus. At the same time, the pandemic is disrupting the provision of life-saving maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH) services, contributing to the erosion of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and adolescents, and further exposing and exacerbating systematic and structural racial, ethnic and gender inequities everywhere. A...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - February 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: coronavirus [subject], coronavirus infections Source Type: news

Communications Officer
Kieran ’s background includes various marketing positions in the private sector with Disney, Warner Bros. and Citigroup and in the public sector with American Red Cross, Food Bank For NYC and March of Dimes. He joined PMNCH as a Marketing and Communications Consultant in 2019 and accepted his position a s Communications Officer in May. Kieran is passionate about helping others, especially those around the world who are most in need of support and considers his volunteer mission to Africa among his most fulfilling experiences. He enjoys fitness, the outdoors, and meaningful trips to lesser known c ountries. (Source: WHO M...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - February 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Removing the "Global Gag" will benefit millions of vulnerable women and girls worldwide
The Biden-Harris administration ’s decision to rescind the egregious Mexico City Policy, or "Global Gag Rule", is a welcome move, which should now be reinforced by further action to reverse the great damage inflicted by COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of vulnerable women, children and adolescents in low- and middle-income c ountries. The US administration ’s decision to rescind the controversial Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, was warmly welcomed today by The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn& Child Health (PMNCH), an alliance of more than 1000 organizations from over 190 countries working ...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - January 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: abortion [subject] Source Type: news

Virtual PMNCH 26th Board Meeting
The PMNCH Board met virtually for its 26th meeting on 14 and 15 December 2020. The meeting primarily focused on the need to protect the progress made to date on improving the health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents, given the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was done in the context of deciding on what should be done going forward, as proposed by the PMNCH ’s COVID-19 Call to Action campaign plan that was approved during the deliberations. In addition, the Board reflected on the work done to date in 2020, agreed on how PMNCH will restructure its governance to keep on responding to the challen...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - December 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: governance [subject] Source Type: news

Virtual summit marking Universal Health Coverage Day 2020, echoes its theme of “Health for All: Protect Everyone” with a series of commitments by global leaders to improve the health of women, children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
More than 2000 delegates from over 100 countries will convene for the virtualLives in the Balance: Improving the health of women, children and adolescents through Universal Health Coverage summit on 11 December, 2020. They will take stock of how the COVID-19 has affected progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), launch new commitments towards improving the health of women, children and adolescents, and galvanize a participatory approach from all stakeholders to ensure we can ‘do better’ during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - December 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: universal health coverage [subject], universal health care, universal access Source Type: news

Lives in the Balance Summit: Improving the health of women, children and adolescents through UHC
On the eve of Universal Health Coverage Day, more than 1,600 viewers from 100+ countries who registered, tuned into a three-hour live broadcast co-hosted by PMNCH, CORE Group and UHC2030. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - December 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: adolescent health [subject], adolescent, youth, young people, teen health, teenager, adolescence, adolescents, child health [subject], children's health, children, young child, child, communicable disease [subject], infectious diseases, maternal health [s Source Type: news

Country commitments
National leaders from around the world are responding to the needs and experiences of women, children and adolescents in midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Youth leaders sit down with ministers and senior government leaders for brief discussions about key issues related to national commitments to increase action and accountability including: The above summary table is based on preliminary analyses of the commitments provided to PMNCH. Each commitment can be found below. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - December 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

$20.6 billion to help women, newborns, young children and adolescents
10 December 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening three decades of improvement in health and social services for women, newborns, children and adolescents. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - December 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: universal health coverage [subject], universal health care, universal access Source Type: news

OPINION: Stillbirth leaves millions suffering in silence – we must do more to prevent it and end the stigma
Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance, a member of PMNCH We named our first child Wilder Daniel. He was stillborn 21 years ago, on July 13, 1999. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - November 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: newborn [subject], newborn, newborn health, perinatal, neonate mortality, newborn care, low birth weight, infant, newborn, Feature [doctype] Source Type: news

Adolescent health and well-being
Building the capacity of young people is critical to realizing the promise of the Sustaining Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Strategy for Women ’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. Adolescents and young people are uniquely positioned to be effective advocates to hold their governments accountable for the delivery of promises, policies and programs that affect their lives. Now, more than any other time, young people have an opportun ity to make sure every adolescent gets counted; and take action to advocate for adolescent health and well-being. PMNCH in collaboration with key partners, will host a series o...
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - October 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: child health [subject], children's health, children, young child, child Source Type: news

OPINION: In this time of COVID-19 a new consensus on how we should be working to improve adolescent well-being is long overdue
By Enes Efendio ğlu and Souzana Humsi, Adolescents and Youth Constituency Board Members, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn& Child Health Every generation of adolescents grapples with the difficult transition from childhood into adult life: juggling social and academic pressures at school; coping with changing dynamics within family and friendship groups; experiencing the physical and mental transformation of puberty; and making crucial decisions about whether to pursue further education or embark on careers. (Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health)
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - October 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: adolescent health [subject], adolescent, youth, young people, teen health, teenager, adolescence, adolescents, Feature [doctype] Source Type: news