News, Newsletters, Press Releases, and Speeches

News

2008

• U.S. and Pakistan Officials Present Results of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey - 10/22/08 [Word, 28KB]
• Partnership Seeks to Strengthen Ethiopian Public Health System - 07/14/08
• USAID-Supported Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey Reveals the Health of Pakistan’s Mothers - 07/11/08 [Word, 31KB]
• Final Conference of the Project Hope Healthy Family Program - 06/18/08 [PDF, 136KB]
• U.S. Launches Rs 58 Crore Initiative to Improve Maternal and Child Heath in India - 06/12/08
• USAID Child Spacing Program Launched in Balochistan - 05/22/08 [Word, 26KB]
• USAID Launches Birth Spacing Program in NWFP - 05/16/08 [Word, 25KB]
• USAID Launches $60 Million Child Spacing Program - 05/14/08 [Word, 27KB]
• The 2008 Humanitarian of the Year has Advanced Health Care for Yemen’s Women through USAID-Funded Project - 05/08

2007

• USAID Awards Fistula Care - 12/07
  USAID announces the award of Fistula Care, a $70 million, five-year Associate Cooperative Agreement to EngenderHealth and its partners that will build on the successes of the ACQUIRE Project.
  
  
• Visit the New Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) Web Site
  The new site, www.basics.org, is an excellent resource for locating and downloading publications, reviewing project activities, and keeping up-to-date on critical issues in child survival.  Begun in 1994 and now in its third 5-year cycle, BASICS serves as the USAID Bureau for Global Health’s lead technical assistance partner in developing and implementing newborn and child survival strategies. The project is funded by USAID and implemented by the Partnership for Child Health Care, Inc.  The Partnership is comprised of the Academy for Educational Development, John Snow, Inc., and Management Sciences for Health. Subcontractors include the Manoff Group, Inc., the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, and Save the Children Federation, Inc.
  

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Press Releases

2008

• USAID and British Work to Improve Sexual Health - 05/06/08
• Minister Fatimi Opens Afghan Midwives Association Annual Congress - 05/04/08
• USAID’s Hanan Project Celebrates Achievements in Mother and Child Health Care - 04/30/08
• Afghanistan Commemorates International Women’s Day - 03/08/08
• First Lady Honors Women at International Women's Day Event - 03/07/08
• USAID Celebrates International Women's Day - 03/03/08

2007

• New Maternal Center to Open in Cahul - 10/18/07
• Final Report of National Family Health Survey Released Today - 10/11/07
• U.S. Ambassador John Ordway visits USAID Safe Motherhood pilot site in Karaganda City Maternity Hospital - 06/21/07 [PDF, 47KB]
• Dr. Kent R. Hill, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Testifies on Maternal & Child Health, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health - 04/18/07

Speeches

2008

• Testimony of Dr. Kent Hill, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, before the House Africa and Global Health Subcommittee - 03/13/08
  "USAID's Child Survival and Maternal Health Program"
  
  
• Remarks by Dr. Kent R. Hill, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, at the Launch of the Lancet's Series on Maternal and Child Under-Nutrition - 01/16/08

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