Agop Kayayan
| 12:28 PM (26 minutes ago) |  | ||
Nancy, I do not recall whether we have met while at UNICEF. In any case I want to thank
you and Juan Aguilar for the important reminder about Jim Grant.
I am back in Brazil trying to restart my work there. Just checking the statistics I see that after a relatively good decline in infant mortality ( but not in maternal mortality) it has started getting worse.
I believe UNICEF should have followed up its big push in infant and child mortality and should give more importance to maternal mortality reduction, after the great advance. We often criticise politicians for dropping their predecessors' good programs because it is not theirs. Unfortunately to some degree UNICEF did the same.
I am back in Brazil trying to restart my work there. Just checking the statistics I see that after a relatively good decline in infant mortality ( but not in maternal mortality) it has started getting worse.
I believe UNICEF should have followed up its big push in infant and child mortality and should give more importance to maternal mortality reduction, after the great advance. We often criticise politicians for dropping their predecessors' good programs because it is not theirs. Unfortunately to some degree UNICEF did the same.
We are now formulating a program to reduce infant/child/maternal mortality in two of the poorest States in Brazil, Piaui and Ceara. Prospects are not so favorable but Jim used to say rightly, the impossible takes a little longer. It is with that conviction that he managed to get
the regular cease fires for six consecutive years. Best wishes. Agop Kayayan
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