Yang Yang and Jia Liu at Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) in Beijing, China, 2006. Image courtesy Johnson & Johnson. Too often, affordable, effective medicines and simple health supplies do not reach the women and children who need them.
The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children aims to increase access to life-saving medicines and health supplies for the world’s most vulnerable people.
As part of the Every Woman Every Child movement and efforts to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals, the Commission will champion efforts to reduce barriers that block access to essential health commodities.
Commissioners, led by Co-Chairs President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway, will advocate at the highest levels to catalyze change in the way essential but under-used commodities for women’s and children’s health are produced, distributed and used. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin will serve as Vice-Chairs.
The Commission’s work focuses on the needs of countries where the most women, newborns, and children under five die from preventable causes.
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The results of the Commission include recommendations for concrete action to save and improve the lives of millions of women and children worldwide:
