UNICEF Receives $105 Million From Government of Canada for Child Survival in Africa: UNICEF Canada; Catalytic Initiative to save a Million Lives builds on health-care advances.

Canadian Corporate News, November, 2007

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Nov 26, 2007 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- The government of Canada announced $105 million in funding to UNICEF today for the international Catalytic Initiative to Save a Million Lives. The Canadian funding will accelerate progress toward saving the lives of children in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, by building the capacity of national health systems to deliver essential primary health care services for children and pregnant women to combat preventable childhood diseases and by supporting community-based education initiatives to inform ...