Ban Ki-moon presented with Delivering for Girls and Women Award

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has received the first-ever ‘Delivering for Girls and Women’ award on occasion of the Commission on the Status of Women's annual meeting and during an Every Woman Every Child event at U.N. headquarters.

Women Deliver is a leading global advocacy organization for the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women.  The Women Deliver award was created to recognize true visionaries for game-changing efforts that move the needle forward for girls and women, and to initiatives, like Every Woman Every Child, that will lead to significant progress in the future.   

"While I am honored to receive this award, the true champions are fighting on the frontlines for health rights everyday. This recognition is a testament to their dedication and to the hundreds of Every Woman Every Child partners who are united around a common vision to ensure the survival, health, and well-being of women, children, and adolescents in every setting," Ban Ki-moon said.
Katja Iversen, CEO of Women Deliver stated: “The UN Secretary-General has helped propel gender equality and girls’ and women’s health, rights and wellbeing to the forefront of the global agenda and into the SDGs. His commitment to the new global health strategy and to the health and rights of every women, every child and every adolescent everywhere has been outstanding".
The UN Secretary-General is been a champion for the health, rights, and wellbeing of millions of people around the world. He created Every Woman Every Child in 2010 to galvanize attention and support at the highest levels to end preventable deaths for women and children.  

For the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030) underpins the movement and provides a roadmap for ending preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents and helps them achieve their potential for health and well-being in all settings. 

By working together, Every Woman Every Child partners have already saved the lives of millions of women and children and, by advancing the Global Strategy, will continue to support them to achieve their full potential. 
Over 40 countries and over 120 multi-stakeholder partners have already made commitments to the Global Strategy, totaling over $25 billion. At the event the UN Secretary-General called all stakeholders to make a new commitment to Every Woman Every Child or renew an existing one, to be announced at three opportunities this May: at the Fourth Global Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen; at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul; and at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

The Delivering for Girls and Women Award is given to visionaries advocating on progress for girls and women.  It is given to and honoring a special individual or a group who has not only has accomplished great things in the past but also has set in motion systems and started initiatives that will lead to real, tangible, magnificent, incredible progress for girls and women.
Ban Ki-moon during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2010, launched Every Woman Every Child -  an unprecedented global movement that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action by governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address the major health challenges facing women and children around the world. 

Every Woman Every Child is the fastest growing public health partnership in history. Since its beginning in 2010,  partners have contributed to saving the lives of millions of women and children and supported them to achieve their full potential. 

The three objectives of Every Woman Every Child’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health—Survive (end preventable deaths), Thrive (ensure health and well-being) and Transform (expand enabling environments)—are fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with 17 targets spanning nine SDG goals. 

Nigeria partners Siemens, Biostadt on health matters

Towards the revitalistion of the nation's health sector, the Federal Government of Nigeria has finalised a business partnership between Biostadt Company and  Siemens Healthcare. 

At the launch in Abuja last week, the Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole said that the administration of President Mohammadu Buhari is striving to revive the nation's Primary Healthcare Centres across the country.

Adewole called on private healthcare services provider to support the health agenda of the present administration aimed at providing qualitative healthcare service to all Nigerians.

“Our focus is at primary healthcare  level, we want to reinstate at least 10, 000 primary healthcare facilities across the country ensuring that over 100 million Nigerians gain access to basic essential services”.

The Minister challenged the private healthcare organization to work towards realizing the dream of the present administration in the health sector.

“My challenge to you is this: what role will you play in supporting this grand agenda?, what strategies will you bring to the table? What innovation can partnership such as this bring to bear on behalf of those who need it most while generating enough revenue to ensure financial sustainability?”

He congratulated Seimens and Biostadt for the launch the business partnership and wish them successful corporation.