Traduction de «Rapport sur la mortalité maternelle au Canada » (Français → Anglais) :

Health Canada will continue to work with partners and stakeholders on maternal and child health programs in first nations and Inuit communities to reduce the gaps in maternal and infant mortality rates between first nations and the Inuit and the general population.

14. Considers the Commission’s resources allocated to the health sector, and consequently to girls’ and women’s health, insufficient in view of its development policy commitments; points out that, according to the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report on EC Development Assistance to Health Services in sub-Saharan Africa (January 2009), allocations to the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa have not increased since 2000 as a proportion of total EC development assistance for health, while the MDG 2007 Progress Chart still identifies very high level of maternal mortality ...[+++] in sub-Saharan Africa; calls on the Commission to substantially increase investment in the health sector and, in particular, in MDG5 and in sexual and reproductive health;

12. Considers that the resources allocated to the health sector, and consequently to girls' and women's health, are insufficient in view of the EU's development policy commitments; underlines the need to earmark further financial resources under the external assistance instruments for women's health programmes; points out that, according to the Court of Auditors' Special Report on EC Development Assistance to Health Services in sub-Saharan Africa (January 2009), allocations to the health sector to that region have not increased since 2000 as a proportion of total EC assistance for health, while the MDG 2007 Progress Chart still identif ...[+++]ies very high levels of maternal mortality there;

2. Welcomes the Commission's annual report 2001 on the Community's policy and implementation of the external assistance containing information on implementation of programmes and assessment of results. Underlines however that the Commission should incorporate specific goals relating to combating poverty, education, health, gender equality, infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, into the EU's own development policy and must follow more closely and efficiently its implementation;

That the Senate recognize the second week of May as " International Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Week'', with the goal of engaging Canadians on the health issues affecting mothers, newborns, and children in Canada and around the world; reducing maternal and infant mortality; improving the health of mothers and children in the world's poorest countries; promoting equal access to care to women and children living in househo ...[+++]lds of lower socioeconomic status, those with lower levels of education, those living at or below the low-income cut-off, those who are newcomers, and those groups who live in remote and sparsely populated areas of Canada; and preventing thousands of mothers and children from unnecessarily dying from preventable illnesses or lack of adequate health care during pregnancy, childbirth and infancy.—(Honourable Senator Nancy Ruth)

That the Senate recognize the second week of May as " International Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Week'', with the goal of engaging Canadians on the health issues affecting mothers, newborns, and children in Canada and around the world; reducing maternal and infant mortality; improving the health of mothers and children in the world's poorest countries; promoting equal access to care to women and children living in househo ...[+++]lds of lower socioeconomic status, those with lower levels of education, those living at or below the low-income cut-off, those who are newcomers, and those groups who live in remote and sparsely populated areas of Canada; and preventing thousands of mothers and children from unnecessarily dying from preventable illnesses or lack of adequate health care during pregnancy, childbirth and infancy.