By FHI 360
Social media has become a powerful tool in capturing the emerging conversations taking place at Women Deliver. This year’s live coverage of Women Deliver will be crowd-sourced, and you are the crowd. We invite you to tweet live from the Women Deliver conference and share images, quotes, statistics, and reactions. Use #WDLive and you will be part of the coverage. We will share daily curated crowdblogs and videos that capture what the Women Deliver community is discussing and how to move forward. | Full Post |

On Friday, May 3, members of the Women Deliver community tweeted their #daydream for how to create a better future! There was general consensus that it is time to make these dreams a reality. In the end, one person was chosen to receive a scholarship to the Women Deliver Conference in Kuala Lumpur.

By Gamal Serour – It has been shown time and time again that we can accelerate progress towards the MDGs when we invest in girls’ and women’s health and rights, including their rights to reproductive health. When women have access to contraceptives, maternal and child mortality rates are greatly reduced; sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are prevented; the number of safe and unsafe abortions is lowered; and pregnancy and birth-related complications are avoided. Girls and women are more likely to stay in school and spend more time in the workforce when they are able to plan their pregnancies. All of this helps us close the gender gap, reduce poverty, spur economies, and stabilize nations.