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Options to consider for question 9

  • The only way we will end poverty is to put women and mothers at the front and centre of all our efforts

    Andrew Mitchell
    UK Development Secretary

We think some of the lessons include the need to:

  • Integrate health services that provide high-impact, cost effective interventions across the continuum of care.
  • Ensure health workers, including midwives and community health workers are trained, deployed, managed and supervised
  • Improve commodity security – getting supplies in the right place at the right time and making drugs available and affordable on the market
  • Invest in national and district health systems to deliver clinical and outreach/community services
  • Work with private and other non-state providers, including non-governmental organisations, to deliver improved reproductive, maternal and newborn health outcomes

Do you have any other ideas to share with us?

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