tailieunhanh - Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2011

The most dramatic achievement in child health has been children’s immunization, which has greatly augmented the chances of their survival. IMCI strategy offers a promising set of interventions to address the child survival problems in Bangladesh. Effective implementation of IMCI case management guidelines improved quality of care in health facilities across various settings. How well IMCI can work depends upon the strength of the health system responsible for its implementation, which rarely reached adequate levels in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Urban Primary Health Care Project (UPHCP) targets primary health care services in urban areas of Bangladesh where the government contracts NGOs to provide services. Involving NGOs for providing healthcare through clinics run. | NFPA Annual Report 2011 Maternal Health Thematic Fund UNFPA Delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted every childbirth is safe and every young person s potential is fulfilled. Cover photo A young woman and her healthy newborn baby following a Caesarian section in Central Equatoria South Sudan. Photo by Sven Torfinn Panos Pictures. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS UNFPA wishes to acknowledge its partnerships with national governments and donors and with other UN agencies in advancing the UN Secretary-General s Global Strategy for Women s and Children s Health. We also acknowledge with gratitude the multi-donor support generated to strengthen reproductive health. In particular we would like to thank the governments of Austria Canada Finland Iceland Ireland Luxembourg the Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland the Republic of Korea Spain Sweden and the United Kingdom. We would also like to thank our partners in civil society and the private sector including Friends of UNFPA Johnson Johnson Virgin Unite Zonta International and the Women s Missionary Society-African Methodist Episcopal Church for their generous support. A special thanks goes to our many individual donors and to our UN Trust Funds and Foundations. We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to colleagues around the globe in the World Health Organization UNICEF the World Bank UNAIDS and UNFPA who are making a stronger and healthier partnership possible especially through the French and Canadian grants promoting maternal newborn and child health known as the Muskoka Initiative . We are also grateful to development partners for their collaboration and support in championing reproductive health issues and for their technical contributions. These partners include the International Confederation of Midwives the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Columbia University s Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program Johns Hopkins University Jhpiego the Guttmacher Institute Health Research For .