Melinda Gates urges to support & # 039; human capital & # 039; of maternal and child health

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Melinda Gates urges to support & # 039; human capital & # 039; of maternal and child health







LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of women and babies could avoid premature deaths if international donors commit to replenishing a global health fund so it can expand to 50 countries, philanthropist Melinda Gates said on Tuesday. 











FILE PHOTO: Melinda Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair, comments during a round table on investing in adolescents to improve nutrition, education, etc. as part of the Spring 2017 Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, in Washington, USA. UU April 20, 2017. REUTERS / Mike Theiler / Stock Photo





The billionaire Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair told Reuters that she and her husband see the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a fund specifically dedicated to maternal, neonatal and child health, as an investment in "human capital" . "That will quickly show significant and measurable results. 

After launching a tentative $ 75 million support for the GFF when it was first created in 2015, the Gates Foundation this week will allocate another $ 200 million at a replacement meeting in Norway "because we're seeing it work," he said. Melinda Gates 

"If you invest in people, that is, in human capital, you will get amazing growth in your country," Melinda Gates said in a telephone interview before the GFF resupply meeting. 

The GFF, led by the World Bank, was created to help poor countries change the way they finance health to encourage long-term investment in policies that can save lives.  

It focuses on high-impact interventions, such as access to contraceptive methods, maternity services, and infant and neonatal nutrition. Health experts worldwide say that these areas often lack sufficient funds, resulting in the deaths of more than five million women and children each year from preventable causes. 

Reversing that lack of funds, Gates said, would allow countries to take charge of their demographic future, reduce dependence on foreign aid and build healthy and working populations in growing economies. 

The GFF is currently working with governments in 27 poor and developing countries, and wants to extend its reach to another 23 countries with the highest rates of preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by the year 2050. 

A study published last month in the journal BMJ Global Health found that if the GFF could raise $ 2 billion in replacement funds, it could expand to 50 countries. This would potentially save up to 35 million lives by reducing the rates of maternal mortality, fetal death, neonatal death and under-five mortality. 

Melinda Gates said she had been surprised at how the fund engages governments and policy-makers in recipient countries and ensures their acceptance of long-term health plans. 

He gave an example from Cameroon, where he said that the government had to work for the GFF to promise to increase the share of the budget that it spends on health to 20 percent in the next three years, from the previous 8 percent. 

"That is exactly what this mechanism has driven them to do, and that is what Bill (Gates) and I like, forces countries to have a truly unified plan, and to say that we continue investing in our health system. " 





Report from Kate Kelland; Edited by Mark Heinrich





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