International Guidelines and Policy Resources

2010

• mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World .pdf
  
• DRAFT FOR CONSULTATION: Investing in Our Common Future, Joint Action Plan for Women’s and Children’s Health, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 2010. pdf
  
• 2010 Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010) - Countdown to 2015, June 2010. pdf
  
• Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000-10): taking stock of maternal, newborn, and child survival - The Lancet, June 2010. pdf
  
• Accelerating progress towards the health related Millennium Development Goals, WHO, May 2010. pdf
  
• A New Approach to Thinking Globally and Acting Locally – Global to Local Health Initiative, April 2010. pdf
  
• Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5 – The Lancet, April 2010. pdf
  
• Maternal mortality: surprise, hope, and urgent action – The Lancet, April 2010. pdf
  
• A renewed effort to reduce the global toll – Countdown to 2015, April 2010.
  
• 2010 Reality Check – Action for Global Health, April 2010. pdf
  
• Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women – UN Commission on the Status of Women, March 2010. pdf
  
• Mothers and infants to get free health care in Sierra Leone – The Lancet, March 2010.
  
• How can child and maternal mortality be cut? – BMJ, January 2010. pdf
  

2009

• Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health, Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA, December 2009. pdf
  
• Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda - WHO Global Report, November 2009. pdf
  
• DFID’s policy position on safe and unsafe abortion - DFID, October 2009. pdf
  
• Consensus for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health – The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, September 2009. pdf
  
• Dying To Give Birth: Fighting Maternal Mortality in Peru – Health Affairs, July/August 2009. pdf
  
• World Report on Women’s Health 2009 – Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights: 15 years after the International Conference on Population and Development, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, August 2009.
  
• Two Decades of Progress: USAID’s Child Survival and Maternal Health Program - USAID, June 2009. pdf
  
• Investing in maternal, newborn and child health: The case for Asia and the Pacific - World Health Organization Report, April 2009. pdf
  
• Family Planning Saves Lives, Population Reference Bureau, 4th Edition, February 2009. pdf
  

2008

• Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial, The Lancet, June 2008. pdf
  
• The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health - UNICEF Report, December 2008. pdf
  
• “Countdown to 2015 MNCH: The 2008 Report - Tracking Progress in Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival”
  

2007

• DFID’s Maternal Health Strategy Reducing maternal deaths: evidence and action - DFID, April 2007. pdf
  

2005

• The World Health Report 2005 - make every mother and child count - World Health Organization, April 2005. pdf
  
• How to Reduce Maternal Deaths: Rights and Responsibilities - DFID, February 2005. pdf
  

2003

• Why Invest in Newborn Health - Policy Perspectives on Newborn Health, April 2003. pdf
  

2002

• Healthy Mothers and Healthy Newborns: The Vital Link - Policy Perspectives on Newborn Health, April 2002. pdf