Investing in Our Future
Investing in Our Future

Author: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 9290612398

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This document contains guidance for policy-makers and programme managers to help provide for the sexual and reproductive health needs of young people, based on three key factors: i) life-skills-based information and education; ii) access to reproductive health services that are receptive to them; and iii) a supportive and enabling environment. It is a joint WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF publication and has been developed in response to World Health Assembly resolution WHA55.19.

Maternal Health Care : Policies, Technical Standards and Services Accessibility in Eight Countries in the Western Pacific Region
Maternal Health Care : Policies, Technical Standards and Services Accessibility in Eight Countries in the Western Pacific Region

Author: Who Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9290618469

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Target 5A of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was to reduce maternal deaths by 75% between 1990 and 2015. The Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group comprising the World Health Organization (WHO) the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) the World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division assessed the 95 countries with an MMR higher than 100 in 1990. The report notes Cambodia the Lao People?s Democratic Republic and Mongolia have achieved this target in the Western Pacific Region. However maternal mortality remains higher than the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target in five countries in the Region. WHO has developed evidence-based maternal health recommendations for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity. This review compares national guidelines and protocols implementation and health system standards to WHO recommendations for eight countries that account for 96% of maternal deaths in the Western Pacific Region.

State of the World's Children
State of the World's Children

Author: UNICEF.

Publisher: UNICEF

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9280644424

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On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.