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The second global conference Women Deliver 2010 will be held in Washington, DC on 7-9 June and will focus on the theme: delivering solutions for girls and women. The conference will highlight the issue of women's health and development in general and that maternal and reproductive health in particular needs to become a global priority.

The main message of the conference will stress that Millennium Development Goal 5, as well as, 4 and 6, which aims to reduce maternal mortality and achieve universal access to reproductive health, reduction of newborn mortality and combat HIV, Malaria and TB will only be achieved by investing in women. The conference moreover will illustrate the relationship between health, gender equality and development.

The Women Deliver conference was launched in 2007 in London, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and highlighted the major neglected public health issue of maternal and newborn health and survival. Women Deliver has helped create worldwide commitments, partnerships and networks with common goals. WHO was proud to be part of the organizing committee and to have Dr Margaret Chan the Director-General participate in 2007.

Related links

• Women Deliver
• Making Pregnancy Safer
• Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health