For this Giving Tuesday, help end preventable maternal and child deaths

No child or mother should have to die of preventable causes.

Since 1990, these deaths have been cut nearly in half. But the world can - and should - do even better.

The United States Government declared ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths within a generation to be a national priority. A new bill before congress, the Reach Every Mother and Child Act, will help save 15 million children’s lives and 600,000 women’s lives by 2020.

Maternal Health in Developing Countries
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And Global Poverty Project needs your voice to get Congress to pass it.

The Reach Every Mother and Child Act is a bipartisan piece of legislation that will help scale up the solutions that work to end preventable maternal and child deaths. Specifically, the legislation will:

Coordinate a U.S. government strategy to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths;

Require ambitious targets to be set, tracked and annually reported on;

Focus on the poorest and most vulnerable populations in the world;

Create an innovative public-private financing tool to leverage public and private capital to expand delivery of high-impact, evidence-based interventions for international maternal, newborn, and child health.

Together, we can ensure that diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia aren't a death sentence for kids.

You can go to TAKE ACTION NOW to encourage leaders to pass this bill.

TopicsMaternal Health Child Health Preventable Disease US Congress The Reach Every Mother and Child Act The US Government