In 2010, the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health highlighted the suffering of women and children around the world caused by lack of access to life saving commodities.
Life in the developing world is filled with stories like that of the woman who, just after child birth, dies from excessive bleeding because the health centre is stocked-out of the medicine to save her life; the child with a simple case of pneumonia who cannot be treated because the needed antibiotic is not registered for use; and the 45-year old woman who finds out she is pregnant for the seventh time, after almost dying the last time she gave birth because she does not have access to modern methods of family planning.
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