Leaders Asked for $169 Billion at UN to Save 15.6 Million Lives
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Leaders meeting in New York this week will get a request to spend $169 billion on a United Nations plan to save the lives of 15.6 million women and children by improving their access to health care.
“The world has failed to invest enough in the health of women, adolescent girls, newborns, infants and children,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an introduction to the plan, called the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. “As a result, millions of preventable deaths occur each year.”