This week, the governments of Norway and Burkina Faso, The World Bank and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the GFF Replenishment event. The aim of the event was to raise additional funding to the GFF's support of the 50 countries with the greatest need in terms of maternal and child health.
Women and child health
The Global Funding Facilty in support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF) was established in 2015 as an innovative financing mechanism to close the gap to eliminate preventable deaths of mothers, newborn, and children by 2030 as well as improving the health and well-being og women, children, and adolescents. They help governments in low- and lower-middle income countries transform how they prioritize and finance the health and nutrition of their people.
The Centre for Global Health (CGH) was happy to be invited to the event and to meet both new and old friends and collagues. The CGH strongly supports the GFF in their focus on women and child health, as it is also a highly prioritized area at the University of Oslo and at the CGH, not least within our signatory theme Sexual and Reproductive Health.