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.

Paraguay has eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to do so in almost 50 years, according to the World Health Organization.

Fuente: Ambergris Today Acting Prime Minister of Belize and IDB President sign an agreement for a $1.25 million operation, the SM2015 Initiative’s first project in Belize

Fuente: www.grandchallenges.ca Grand Challenges Canada has three funding opportunities that are currently open and accepting applications. They are looking for bold ideas with big impact!

Fuente: The economist

IN ELDORADO, one of São Paulo’s poorest and most misleadingly named favelas, some eight-year-old boys are playing football on a patch of ground once better known for drug gangs and hunger. Although they look the picture of health, they are not. After the match they gather around a sack of bananas beside the pitch.

Fuente: The Lancet

Last month, the Lancet published a review analyzing inequalities in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions by intervention and country. Although SM2015 countries were not included in this analysis, the message, methodology and findings here are important to groups working to close the health care gap between the rich and the poor. Follow this link to read which countries and interventions were found to be the most inequitable according to the Lancet review.