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    The future we want

    The number of preventable maternal and child deaths has significantly reduced within a generation, but now is not the time to take our foot off the gas. An opinion by Nana Taona Kuo, head of Every Woman Every Child, ahead of next week's U.N. General Assembly in New York.

    By Nana Taona Kuo // 19 September 2014

    We have made great strides on the increased survival and health of women and children since the Millennium Development Goals were launched in 2000.

    Thanks to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, the subsequent Every Woman Every Child movement and the work of the many partners around the world, the progress that has been made for women and children has been the success story of the MDGs.

    Four years on, more than 300 stakeholders, including 70 governments, have made commitments to advance that strategy. Every Woman Every Child has proven to be a dynamic and innovative multistakeholder partnership that is delivering results.

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      Nana Taona Kuo is senior manager at the executive office of the U.N. Secretary-General for Every Woman Every Child, a U.N. global campaign that hopes to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015 by engaging governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address major health challenges facing women and children around the world. Kuo previously worked for UNAIDS.

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