Maternity Matters: Funding the future

This in-depth series will explore how donor funding is leveraging private sector engagement in the future of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health solutions. Learn more about how we are bridging the data gap and mobilizing funders, investors, and experts to collaborate and push to strengthen both local and global response health ecosystems.

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REPORT: Funding the Future – The Global Fund

REPORT: Funding the Future – The Global Fund

There is a $33 billion annual financing gap affecting reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health — or RMNCAH — services. Devex in sponsorship with MSD for Mothers is engaging with some of the leading donors in RMNCAH to understand how they work with the private sector to support the health of women, children and adolescents across the world.

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Funding the Future

Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health data feed

Creating real change to be able to achieve the SDGs starts by knowing what investors and innovators are doing and using that as the basis to leverage opportunities with the private sector. Explore this unique data feed aggregating RMNCAH-related news and activities and interacting with the visualization to be in the known of who is providing the funds.

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The digital health revolution: Will women be left out?

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How do we design quality care interventions that truly serve the needs of all women? A variety of ways of doing this were discussed at Devex's Prescription for Progress: Bringing health solutions to scale conference.

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Funding the Future 2.0: Catalyzing investments that deliver on health

Funding the Future 2.0: Catalyzing investments that deliver on health

By Devex Editor

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum 50th Annual Meeting in Davos, Devex, MSD for Mothers, Credit Suisse, and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation co-hosted an event to explore how innovative financial models can be utilized to crowd in additional capital to bridge the funding gap for maternal health. This was the sixth event in this series which built on previous discussions to help move the needle on these efforts.

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MSD for Mothers is MSD’s $500 million initiative to help create a world where no woman has to die giving life. Applying MSD’s business and scientific resources, we collaborate with partners to improve the health and well-being of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. For more information, visit www.msdformothers.com

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