Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Chris McCafferty (Labour), on Wednesday, 11 June 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 60 members in total.

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GLOBAL ACTION TO IMPROVE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

That this House notes with concern that maternal and child death rates are still extremely high in developing countries, owing to the inadequacy of human resources and the absence of quality health services, particularly in rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America; acknowledges that the international community agreed to reduce maternal mortality by 75 per cent. by 2015 under Millennium Development Goal 5; therefore welcomes the emphasis placed on strengthening health services, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal and child health and family planning services, in the Department for International Development's Achieving Universal Access, The New UK Strategy for Halting and Reversing the Spread of HIV in the Developing World; further notes that United Kingdom medical organisations, including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are working to ensure that training and expertise are provided in developing countries; and calls upon the Government to highlight maternal and child health at forthcoming key events in the European Parliament, the G8 Summit and UN meetings.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 2 amendments.

1760A1

leave out from `services' to `services' in line 8.

1760A2

leave out from `World' to `and' in line 12.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1760 

1760A1 

1760A2 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

John Bercow

Phyllis Starkey

Paul Flynn

Betty Williams

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

Subjects

Developing countries Africa Health services Asia Latin America

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk