“Every Woman Every Child” High-level Meeting was held on September 26th at the UN headquarter in New York. The meeting was hosted by the UN Secretary General’s Office and with CPAFFC as its coordinating organization in China. Nearly 600 representatives from different countries attended the meeting. The VIPs included First Lady of the People’s Republic of China and WHO Ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Peng Liyuan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Director General of WHO Margaret Chan, Executive Director of UNICEF Anthony Lake, President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Malawi Peter Mutharika, Peime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health at the opening ceremony. President Li Xiaolin attended the whole meeting and delivered a key-note speech at the second panel.

Madame Peng Liyuan said in her speech that taking care of women, children and adolescents’ health is the most important investment to the future of mankind. She expressed her gratitude to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for launching “Every Woman Every Child” and leveraging the collective strengths of all sectors to make great contribution to promoting the health of women, children and adolescents worldwide. Madame Peng promised that China would work closely with the UN, WHO, UNAIDS、UNICEF, UN Women to fully support the implementation of the updated Global Strategy in the whole world.

President Li Xiaolin highly appreciated the achievements made by “Every Woman Every Child” in the past five years and congratulated on the upgraded Global Strategy. She also introduced the new commitment made by the Chinese Government. As part of this commitment, President Li emphasized the China Partnership Network which was established by the joint efforts of CPAFFC and the UN. The Network aimed at leveraging the collective strengths of government institutions, corporations and civil society members, to build sustainable and innovative partnerships for critical areas for women, children and adolescents’ health in China and overseas; and it will serve as a platform for sharing experiences and best practices, thereby making new and effective contributions to this global agenda. The current members of the growing network pledges to invest or donate 290 million US dollars in critical areas such as electricity and water for health and education facilities, health ICT system, insurance in support of UHC, agriculture and nutrition and food safety.

National leaders, leadership of international organizations and social societies as well as CEOs of multinational corporations presented at the meeting made commitments in their speeches, promised to take tangible actions to support the upgraded Global Strategy and promote the development of the global women children and adolescents’ health. Meanwhile many representatives have expressed their support to the China Partnership Network and willingness for future collaboration.

“Every Woman Every Child” was launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2010, with the aim of leveraging the collective strengths of government institutions, corporations and civil society members to forge cross-sector cross-industry partnerships to support development strategies for women’s and children’s health in all countries. China was one of the first countries made commitment to this initiative. Since its launching, 2.4million women and children have been saved through joint efforts made by all sides. The Women’s and Children’s health strategy is formally updated to the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in September 2015. The updated Global Strategy will become the guideline for promoting women, children and adolescents’ health from 2016 to 2030.

President Li Xiaolin also met with Mr. Mark Waller, Executive Vice President of National Football League in New York.