A group of philanthropists, including the Gates Foundation, have supported a fund with approximately $ 500 million to help save the lives of newborns and mothers in sub-Sahara Africa, standing against a foggy global health financing landscape.
The beginning fund was launched on Tuesday at the house of Mohammed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity, another major Backer in Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates.
The project is working for at least one year. But its role has become more important because governments worldwide follow the US in pulling back with international assist Roots in an interview.
“This is a suitable moment,” he said at the beginning of this month, stressing that the funds were to work with African governments, experts and organizations rather than parachutes in experts or technologies, an approach that he said is different from many traditional donors.
Tala al Ramahi in Mohammed bin Zayed Foundation said, “Before two generations … women in UAE used to die during the birth of a child. More than half of the children were not left since childhood.”
The Beginnings Fund aims to save the lives of 300,000 mothers and newborns by 2030, and expand quality care for 34 million mothers and infants.
The partners promised $ 100 million in direct investment in maternal and child health, which is different from the fund.
It plans to operate in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe, which is focusing on low-cost intervention and personnel in high-bound hospitals. This task will track and target the major causes, including infants and mothers, including infections, severe bleeding for mothers and respiratory crisis for infants.
According to the World Health Organization, the world has made great progress in reducing newborn and maternal deaths, which is reducing the newborn mortality between 1990 and 2022.
Ethiopia Health Minister Dr. McDes Daba said, “Mothers and newborns should not die for the reasons we know how to stop,” Ethiopia’s Health Minister Dr. McDes Daba said that most of the deaths survive.
Kang’e said that the funds like other philanthropists were calling to fill the gaps in global support funding, but focused on its long -term objective of changing the projection of mother and newborn survival.
The fund is also supported among others by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Delta Philanthropy and Elma Foundation. It will be led by Nairobi, Kenya.
