The Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health is a funding initiative announced at the
36th G8 summit
The 36th G8 summit was held in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, on June 25–26, 2010. In this year's meeting, the G8 leaders agreed in reaffirming the group's essential and continuing role in international affairs and "assertions of new-found relevan ...
which commits
member nations to collectively spend an additional $5 billion between 2010 and 2015 to accelerate progress toward the achievement of
Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, the reduction of
maternal,
infant
An infant or baby is the very young offspring of human beings. ''Infant'' (from the Latin word ''infans'', meaning 'unable to speak' or 'speechless') is a formal or specialised synonym for the common term ''baby''. The terms may also be used to ...
and
child mortality
Child mortality is the mortality of children under the age of five. The child mortality rate, also under-five mortality rate, refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births.
It en ...
in
developing countries. A second summit on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health was held in Toronto from May 28–30, 2014, in follow-up to the original 36th G8 summit.
See also
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Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health was a program of the United Nations (UN) directed at improving women's and children's health in the developing world.
The program was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September 2 ...
References
Maternal health
Millennium Development Goals
G7 summits
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