Canada To Provide Almost $73M for Maternal, Child Health Initiatives in Developing Countries

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Article Date: 14 Apr 2005 - 3:00 PDT

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Canadian Minister of International Cooperation Aileen Carroll on Thursday announced that the Canadian International Development Agency will provide nearly $73 million for programs addressing maternal and child health in developing countries in observance of... World Health Day, the United News of Bangladesh reports. The funding includes approximately $40 million for child-health initiatives in Africa, including integrated tuberculosis, micronutrients, measles and polio programs (United News of Bangladesh, 4/10). The funding also will be used to reach the U.N. Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and diseases by 2015. "There is simply no good reason why, in the 21st century, thousands of women and children in developing countries should be dying during childbirth and the early years of life," Carroll said, adding, "CIDA-funded health programs and interventions have saved millions of lives and are achieving real, positive and measurable results. This is why, on World Health Day, I am pleased to announce new funding for such initiatives" (CIDA release, 4/7). CIDA also will provide about $32 million to Bangladesh and Nigeria to improve the countries' sexual and reproductive health initiatives and national health systems (United News of Bangladesh, 4/10).

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