tailieunhanh - KEY DATA AND FINDINGS CONTRACEPTIVE COMMODITIES FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH

A major focus of the World Pneumonia Day effort was engaging political leadership to advance efforts to protect against, prevent and treat child pneumonia, particularly in countries with high disease burden. Event highlights include the following: Pneumococcal Vaccine Introduction Brings New Hope to Malawian Families On World Pneumonia Day, Malawi became the 16th GAVI-eligible country to introduce pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into its routine immunization program, promising to protect millions of children from pneumococcal pneumonia. This was an instrumental step for the country, where 14 percent of under-five child deaths were due to pneumonia in 2008. The first vaccine was given to a two-month old baby boy at. | Key Data and Findings Contraceptive Commodities Women s Health Prepared for the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children March 2012 CONTRIBUTORS Authors Kabir Ahmed UNFPA Bidia Deperthes UNFPA Beth Frederick Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH Suzanne Ehlers PAPACT Natalie Kapp WHO Cindy Paladines Office of the SGSE Marie Christine Siemerink UAFC Joint Programme John Skibiak RH Supplies Coalition Beth Skorochod PSI Markus Steiner FHI360 John Townsend The Population Council Elizabeth Westley ICEC Acknowledgements Christine Ardal NORAD Jennifer Bergeson-Lockwood USAID Yves Bergevin UNFPA Alan Bornbusch USAID Campbell Bright UNFPA Blami Dao JHPIEGO Luc de Bernis UNFPA Mario Festin WHO Susan Guthridge-Gould Consultant Werner Haug UNFPA Katherine Holland UNICEF Jane Hutchings PATH Maggie Kilbourne-Brook PATH Desmond Koroma UNFPA Benedict Light UNFPA Mike Mbizvo WHO Priya Mehra EOSG Amy Meyers CHAI Kirsten Myhr NORAD Kechi Ogbuagu UNFPA Nuriye Ortayli UNFPA Sharmila Raj USAID Sukanta Sarker UNFPA Kathleen Schaffer ICEC Ann M. Starrs Family Care International Nguyen-Toan Tran IPPF Amy Tsui Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH Jagdish Upadhyay UNFPA Renee Van de Weerdt UNICEF CONTENTS A. BACKGROUND B. DATA 1. Contraceptive 2. Emergency 3. The female C. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOCUS BY UN D. CITED WORKS SUPPLEMENTARY Cover photo Fernanda Manhique Maputo Mozambique Credit Pedro Sa da Bandeira .