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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Setting The Agenda At Women Deliver

Friday, 18th June 2010

At last week’s Women Deliver conference in Washington, Melinda Gates said it was ‘critical to elevate women’s and children’s health on the global agenda’ and highlighted the opportunity to build on recent progress by rapidly expanding access to proven solutions, and by designing more integrated programs that address a range of women's and children's health needs. 

The Gates Foundation will invest $1.5 billion over the next five years to support maternal and child health, family planning, and nutrition programs in developing countries.  This funding will complement its investments in other areas related to women’s and children’s health, such as developing and delivering vaccines, and preventing pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. 

FIGO admires the commitment and passion of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in its work with maternal and child health: read more about Melinda’s vision and visit the Women Deliver website for further information.

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