Safe Motherhood Week 2024
Putting the Needs of Women at the Center: Prioritizing Women, Including Mothers, in Healthcare and R&D
This year’s Safe Motherhood Week (SMW) centers around a powerful message—prioritizing women, including mothers, in healthcare and research and development (R&D). By spotlighting women-centric healthcare, SMW 2024 aims to catalyze global change, making healthcare systems more inclusive and responsive to women’s needs.
Advocating for Systemic Change in Women’s Healthcare and R&D
Safe Motherhood Week 2024 brings awareness to the critical need for healthcare systems to focus on women-centric care and drug development. Women’s health requirements evolve over their life stages, especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding, making it essential to address these needs through targeted healthcare solutions and gender-responsive care approaches. SMW highlights how current gaps in maternal health not only affect women but also have far-reaching impacts on families and communities.
Public Consultation: Join Us in Shaping the Future of Women-Centric Care
We’re conducting a public consultation with leaders across the healthcare spectrum to launch a global partnership, co-led with patient communities, to accelerate effective collective action in implementing women-centric care and R&D. We are looking for feedback from women’s health advocates, patient representatives, policymakers, industry professionals, and healthcare researchers, to refine an approach we have developed in consultation with over 20 leaders across sectors. Your input will help us prioritize and expand interventions that directly impact women’s health outcomes.
We invite you to share your perspective on this collective action framework. Your insights will play a key role in shaping healthcare programs that meaningfully address women’s most important needs.
It takes less than 10 minutes.
Our Vision: Quality, Equitable Maternal Healthcare for All
Safe Motherhood Week envisions a world where all women, regardless of background, have access to safe, respectful, and affordable maternal and emergency care. We believe that quality maternal healthcare is a basic right vital to women, families, and communities everywhere.
Your voice matters. Join us in creating a world where women’s healthcare is a priority, and women’s needs are at the center of healthcare and R&D. Support our campaign by answering and sharing our social media polls focused on real-world experiences with motherhood and the challenges women face in healthcare. Your insights will help us better understand how healthcare can meet the unique needs of women and mothers.
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