UK DOH launched "Health is GLOBAL" Strategy

The UK Government launched a new strategy “Health is Global” which sets out the span of global health issues and the plan for tackling them across government and with other partners, including civil society organizations.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_072697

500,000 Women Die in Pregnancy, Childbirth

More than half a million women still die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, often bleeding to death because no emergency obstetrical care is available, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.

Despite modest progress, particularly in Asia, the global maternal mortality toll remains stubbornly stable due to a lack of financial resources and political will, it said. More than 99 percent of the estimated 536,000 maternal deaths worldwide in 2005 occurred in developing countries, half of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LJ594303.htm

Declining Global Number of Child Mortality.

UNICEF released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five continued to decline in 2007.

The new estimates show a 27 per cent decline in the under-five mortality rate, from 93 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, to 68 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007. In industrialized countries there are, on average, just six deaths for every 1,000 live births.
According to this data, 12.7 million children under five died around the world in 1990, and in 2007 child deaths declined to about 9.2 million.

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_45607.html