About two thousand world leaders including more than 100 cabinet ministers, heads of United Nations and other multilateral agencies, senior civil servants, health professionals, researchers, economists and reproductive health advocates will attend the two-day long conference beginning on Thursday.
The conference will discuss different aspects of achieving progress in Millennium Development Goal Five (MDG 5) to cut maternal mortality by three-fourths.
The organizing partners of the conference also wants to reach the target of MDG in improving child survival, reducing poverty, stopping HIV/AIDS, providing education, promoting gender equality, ensuring adequate food and promoting a healthy environment.
The organizing partners of the conference are Women Deliver Planning Group, Department of International Development of UK, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Family Care International, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Save the Children, Swedish International Development Agency, United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Children's Fund, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
