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Events and actions on Mother's Night on the 9th of May by SRHR advocates
in five participating European member states (Belgium, the Netherlands,
Malta, Hungary and Germany) turned out to be very successful. DSW, as
part of a project led by the World Population Foundation (WPF) of the
Netherlands, contributed to this year's Mother's night, helping to raise
awareness on maternal health among Members of the European Parliament
and EU officials. In Berlin, DSW and its partners presented a call for
action to Karin Kortmann, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development.
DSW, acting on behalf of EuroNGOs, participated in the G8 2nd 2009 Health Experts Meeting in Venice on March 27th, and urged the G8 to specify concrete actions and a timeline to implement its commitments in support of the health MDGs, especially MDG 5. DSW emphasized the need for the G8 and partner country governments to have a fully funded budget line for provision of SRH information, services and supplies in developing countries; for health system strengthening initiatives to build efficient and sustainable supply chains for procurement and distribution of RH supplies and to assure that the Global Fund produces accountable results for integration of RH with HIV/AIDS and malaria programming.




