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WHO Executive Board passes resolution on MDG 4 & 5 accountability

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Back in September during United Nations week, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) met to review the current state of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which was covered on End the Neglect. Following this meeting, a resolution was put forth by the World Health Organization (WHO) that would benefit both MDG 4 and 5 – reduce child mortality, and improve maternal health, respectively. The Resolution includes a strategy to address the health of women and children, along with “the establishment of a related Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.” The Resolution also requests that WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan to see that the Commission is effective in making progress.

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Weekly Blog Round Up 9/20-9/24

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This week on End the Neglect…

1.On Monday Anjana Padmanabhan wrote  about the DC hosted ”TedxFoggyBottom” and the discussion, “The Future We Make,” examining the reasons why the Millennium Development Goals are important, TedxChange:Change is Possible

2.We had multiple entries focusing on women and maternal health, Dale Hanson President of CIDRZ wrote for us, Moving Women Out of Last Place, and 2 blog entries re-posted from Women Delivers, The Clock is Ticking: Make Every Woman Count and Key Leaders at UN MDG Summit Commit to Investing in Women

3.We received wonderful blogs about the MDG summit too! Dr. Eric Legally wrote, The Millennium Development Goals: Engineering Good and Kelly Rowland is promoting MDGs this week with her video,Help Spread the Buss about the MDGs.

4.Our very own policy intern Morgan Kamanski contributed to our blog this week as well, writing about Fighting Diseases to Achieve Millennium Development Goal 6

5. Alanna Shaikh wrote about the overwhelming presence of corporations in the past week , calling it The Corporatization of Global Health

6. We have been extremely lucky to have our strategic communications and media outreach Associate, Anjana Padmanabhan, live blogging from the MDG summit in New York! Giving us an Insider Guide to UN Week She Kicked off the UN Week in t he Digital Media Lounge, wrote about Localization, Transparency, and Integration Key Themes at UN Digital Media Lounge, and about  NTDs Creeping into Conversations at the UN Week Digital Media Lounge. She also gave us a perspective on Delivering for Women and Children: Maternal/Child Health and MDGs, exposed us to Raj Shah Makes Appearance at UN Week! and she then Wrapped Up the Week for our readers!

7. We also posted some MDG related videos on our blog, Saving Lives and Achieving MDG 4 Through Soccer! and Everyone Has a Role – The Millennium Development Goals

Wrapping Up UN Week, But Not Shutting Up

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It’s been an interesting week here in New York during UN Week. While the pace and spread of information has been frenzied, we can’t deny that the use of social media has opened up the conversation about international development, global health, and philanthropy to a much larger audience of caring, concerned citizens all across the globe.  The words “social good” have certainly entered into my rhetoric after this week. (follow on Twitter).

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USAID Admin Raj Shah Makes an Appearance at UN Week Digital Media Lounge!

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It’s day 3 here at the UN Week Digital Media Lounge, and we got a nice surprise this morning. USAID Administrator Dr. Raj Shah stopped by for a quick discussion moderated by Sen. Tim Wirth, President, UN Foundation.

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