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Every day, 830 women die during childbirth and pregnancy, and each year, 6.9 million women are treated for complications from unsafe abortion, almost all of them in developing countries.
One year ago, she died from complications in childbirth, a killer that every month takes twice as many lives as the entire Ebola epidemic.
Between 2010 and 2015, maternal mortality in the state nearly doubled, and women in Texas are now more likely to die from childbirth than women in Tajikistan.
Girls who give birth before they turn 15 are five times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than women in their 20s.
Each year, one million children, on average, still die during their first day of life; more than million babies are stillborn; and more than 300,000 mothers die during pregnancy and childbirth – a death toll exceeding the entire population of Namibia.
As birth attendants, midwives are ideally positioned to save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth.
Policies and funding to support midwife education, training, and regulation can produce up to a sixteenfold return on investment, because when midwives are involved in pregnancy and childbirth, mothers are less likely to require expensive emergency interventions such as caesarean sections.
We cannot rest until we have addressed the millions of lives that are still lost each year in pregnancy, childbirth, and early life.
The government has put together a global alliance to prevent maternal death in childbirth, investing in both safe delivery and survival of newborns.
This may mean dying in childbirth rather than risking the “dishonor” of giving birth in a public place, a hospital, in front of strangers.
In particular, allowing women to decide if, when, and how often they become pregnant leads to fewer deaths in childbirth and fewer infant deaths.
The best way to reduce violence against women, lift them out of poverty, and empower them to be full and equal members of society is to break the cycle of early marriage and childbirth.
Improved education is associated with many positive developments, including fewer child marriages, lower death rates among children under the age of five and mothers during childbirth, more effective HIV prevention, higher wages, and greater economic growth.
Financial support, such as low-interest loans for newlyweds, could also promote marriage and childbirth.
The UN’s own calls to accelerate momentum at the launch of the 500-day countdown to the MDGs’ expiry highlight the fact that inequality, maternal mortality from childbirth, lack of universal education, and environmental degradation remain serious challenges.
How to Save Women and Newborns During ChildbirthBOSTON – Tennis star Serena Williams’ harrowing story of life-threatening complications after the birth of her daughter reminds us that childbirth is potentially deadly for any woman or newborn.
Every year, more than 5.6 million women and newborns die during pregnancy, childbirth, or in the first month of life.
Low-quality care during the 48 hours around childbirth, in particular, is one of the greatest contributors to birth-related suffering and death.
We know what kills women and newborns around the time of childbirth.
Globally, childbirth has shifted from the home to health facilities where a skilled clinician could provide safer care.
Birth attendants who had been performing just seven of 18 known life-saving steps during childbirth now performed 13.
We know that complications arise in childbirth for women everywhere.
The good news is that we know what is needed to make childbirth safer.
Elsewhere, the stories of futility in the “war on drugs are more brutal: capital punishment for drug-related offenses; extra-judicial killings in the name of creating drug-free societies; drug users sent to labor camps as a form of “treatment”; and drug-using women handcuffed to beds during childbirth.
An astounding half-million young woman have recently been hired as health workers to link impoverished households and public clinics and hospitals, which are being improved, and to increase women’s access to emergency obstetrical care in order to avoid tragic and unnecessary deaths in childbirth.
There is no excuse for millions of deaths from malaria, AIDS, TB, polio, measles, diarrhea, or respiratory infections, or for so many women and infants to die in or after childbirth.
If just 0.1% of rich-world income were devoted to life-saving health care for the poor, it would be possible to raise life expectancy, decrease child mortality, save mothers in childbirth, slow population growth, and spur economic development throughout the poor world.
Although the employment rate of women in Japan reached 69.5% in 2013, more than 60% of women leave the workplace prematurely, mostly owing to childbirth.
In 2015, an estimated 85,000 women died of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth across the Asia-Pacific region – 28% of the global total.
Safe pregnancy and childbirth should be a top priority for all societies, as it is for the UNFPA.
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