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Dear Editor, Less than a month after launching of sustainable development goals (SDG) by UN general assembly (1), and the Global strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ health, a landmark conference was hosted in Mexico City from October 18-21 2015 (2)
The conference provided a unique opportunity to reflect on unfinished agenda of millennium development goals (MDG) and prioritize tasks for the post-MDG period
As Temmerman and colleagues have underlined the need to identify transformative actions to create an environment where women and children can survive and thrive (3), the conference saw more than 1000 delegates and public health experts from 75 countries sharing information, spurring ideas for solutions, designing strategies and networking to meet targets outlined in SDGs and the global strategy
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Dear Editor, Less than a month after launching of sustainable development goals (SDG) by UN general assembly (1), and the Global strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ health, a landmark conference was hosted in Mexico City from October 18-21 2015 (2). The conference was hosted by Mexico’s secretariat of health and convened by USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program, Maternal Health Task Force at Harvard School of Public Health and Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives. As Temmerman and colleagues have underlined the need to identify transformative actions to create an environment where women and children can survive and thrive (3), the conference saw more than 1000 delegates and public health experts from 75 countries sharing information, spurring ideas for solutions, designing strategies and networking to meet targets outlined in SDGs and the global strategy. This paper brings in my experience as a participant of Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, 2015 which dealt with unfinished MDG agenda on maternal and newborn health and way forward, with particular reference to low- and middle-income countries
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