Fuente: Devex The information website specialized in development, Devex.com, has included the Mesoamerican Health Initiative as a worldwide example of results—based financing model.

Fuente: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition The memory is 25 years old, but remains fresh in Dr. Emma Iriarte’s mind. The first thing she noticed was that the husband had accompanied his wife. Usually in the remote mountain villages of Honduras, women went alone to the doctor to ask about family planning. But this was different. This couple had five children at home. Desperate, they simply could not care for a sixth. They had run out of resources.

Fuente: The Lancet The 2016 Lancet Early Childhood Development Series highlights early childhood development at a time when it has been universally endorsed in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This Series considers new scientific evidence for interventions, building on the findings and recommendations of previous Lancet Series on child development (2007, 2011), and proposes pathways for implementation of early childhood development at scale.

Fuente: the dail yeye Growing up in a Catholic household in Texas, I never would have guessed that I would one day travel around the world talking about the benefits of contraceptives.

Fuente: La Nación NEW YORK – Everyone – from elected officials and bureaucrats to voters and taxpayers – can learn from the world's largest charitable foundation about effective development spending. And these lessons are particularly relevant at a time when 56% of Europeans believe their governments should focus solely on domestic issues and let recipient countries deal with problems as best they can (opposition to aid is even higher in France, Poland, Italy, Hungary, and Greece).

Key institutions in the procurement of medicines and inputs of the eight countries that make up the Central American Integration System (SICA), which includes the 7 countries that participate in SMI and the Dominican Republic, participated in the workshop with the purpose of identifying a strategic list of medicines and inputs for maternal and child and sexual and reproductive health services (SRH), which leads to the use of the Joint Negotiation mechanism for prices in order to generate economies of scale, lowering and harmonization of prices and, consequently, savings for the national public procurement systems, while maintaining the same quality of the inputs and medicines.

Santiago, 3 July 2017—Latin American and Caribbean countries today agreed to work to end the preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by 2030, and to develop effective actions for that population to prosper and transform the world.

Fuente: Thomson Reuters Foundation News LONDON, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, on Tuesday won the race to become the next director-general of the World Health Organisation.

Adela lives in a small village in the Copan region. She had five children and in 2016 she became pregnant with her sixth child.

When a woman becomes pregnant her life changes radically. If she is an adolescent, the consequences are even greater. Education is put to the test, possibilities of work are dwindled and social and family relations move to another dimension. Additionally, if this pregnancy takes place in a developing country, it is more likely for young women to be more exposed to poverty.