€250 million (about $292 million) says women's health is an investment, not a cost

At the World Health Summit in Berlin, Bangladesh set out a €250 million (about $292 million) Women's Health Initiative with the European Investment Bank and UNFPA, aiming to reach about 47 million women and adolescent girls between 2027 and 2031 with maternal and newborn care, cervical and breast cancer services and emergency obstetric care. UNFPA's Diene Keita framed it as women's health shifting 'from cost to investment'. The plan also recruits 100,000 community health workers — 80% of them women — and deploys 25,000 midwives, led by Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain.