2nd Women Deliver Conference, Washington DC, June 7-9, 2010
"Delivering solutions for girls and women"
Geneva, 1 June 2010 – Over 3,000 participants will gather in Washington DC this weekend for the 2nd “Women Deliver” conference to highlight the need to invest in women to achieve the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The event, which builds on Women Deliver’s inaugural conference in 2007, will take stock of progress toward MDG5’s main objective – reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters and providing universal access to reproductive health by 2015.
Given the inextricable link between MDG4 to reduce child mortality and maternal mortality, GAVI’s Manager Director for Special Projects Carole Presern will sit on the Conference’s health system strengthening (HSS) panel. The Alliance’s financial support for HSS is designed to help health systems in low-income countries better meet the needs of women and children.
Together with the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, GAVI is a partner in the newly forged Health Systems Funding Platform coordinated by WHO.
GAVI will also run an information booth at the DC conference, displaying publications and films on GAVI’s work in protecting women's and children's health.
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