Royal College of Nursing Australia has supported United Nations calls for increased effort to improve maternal and child health. At today’s opening of the 63rd United Nations Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organisation (DPI/NGO) Conference, held in Melbourne, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the world is well behind meeting targets for maternal and child health outlined [...]
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World Vision: health-related aid spending in the region requires ‘dramatic overhaul’ if more lives are to be saved
On the eve of a Melbourne meeting between the UN and hundreds of charities to discuss the state of global health, World Vision CEO Tim Costello has warned that children in the Pacific region are dying at rates not seen in Australia ‘since before Federation’. Mr Costello said if the Millennium Development Goals for child [...]
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