Vaccines Your child's best shot against disease

Some of the poorest countries have significantly reduced maternal and newborn mortality and improved women’s and children’s health. Innovative approaches can achieve even more, eliminating barriers to health and producing better outcomes. These approaches need to be applied to all activities: leadership, financing (including incentives to achieve better performance and results), tools and interventions, service delivery, monitoring and evaluation. 15 Innovative leadership is also vital, and in several places dynamic national leadership at the cabinet level, exercised through parliament, is holding local governments accountable for their results. In Rwanda, for example, government ministries must include women-centered actions in their plans and...