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The Global Leaders Network for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (GLN) convened country focal points and partners from across the Network to take stock of how Heads of State commitments are being translated into concrete action: from expanding domestic financing and strengthening primary health care to advancing universal health coverage (UHC), accelerating maternal and newborn…

Every year, 260,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. To put that number in perspective, it is the equivalent of filling a World Cup stadium to capacity and losing every person inside it, seven times over. Alongside them, nearly 5 million children die before their fifth birthday, and 1.9 million more are…