Tulia Ackson calls on parliaments to reduce maternal deaths
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily News
Inter-Parliamentary Union President Tulia Ackson has called on parliaments to strengthen legislation, budgets and oversight of health policies to reduce preventable deaths among mothers, newborns and children. She was speaking in Arusha on the sidelines of the organisation’s 153rd Assembly, according to Tanzania’s Daily News.
The President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Tanzanian Tulia Ackson, on Thursday called on parliaments to strengthen legislation, resource mobilisation and oversight of health policies to reduce preventable deaths among mothers, newborns and children, the Daily News reports.
Ms Ackson was speaking at a high-level parliamentary discussion on the health of women, newborns, children and young people. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the IPU’s 153rd Assembly, organised in Arusha.
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