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With unsafe abortion a major cause of maternal mortality, particularly among adolescents and young women, the services EVA provides could not be more important.
The MDGs set 18 sharp and mostly achievable targets in eight areas, including poverty and hunger, gender equality, education, and child and maternal health.
In 1847, Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis demonstrated that he could greatly reduce maternal deaths in his clinic simply by having doctors sterilize their hands.
Though the maternal death rate has declined globally by nearly half since 1990, an estimated 830 women still die from pregnancy-related causes every day.
To be sure, complex issues like poverty, gender discrimination, and poor infrastructure also contribute to maternal mortality.
Many countries have significantly improved maternal health, and they offer innovative models for others to follow.
Many of these success stories were made possible through international development aid for maternal health, which increased steadily from 2010 to 2015.
In many parts of the world, the grassroots organizations providing family-planning services, maternal and child health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, and malaria treatment often represent the first and only line of defense for pregnant women at risk of complications.
Sadly, the Trump administration’s disregard for maternal and child health is not limited to its foreign-aid policies.
Unlike many other countries, the US has actually experienced an increase in maternal deaths in recent years, and now has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed countries.
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.
In the spirit of the occasion, everyone should consider how much more attention and funding maternal and women’s health would get if women were more equally represented in government.
As enthusiastically as the global mass media has received her choice, it is nonetheless extremely difficult in the West for a woman to be portrayed as maternal – let alone physically “flawed” or “impaired” – and also as a fantasy sex object.
While GCC countries have made major improvements in hygiene and maternal and child health, they form the global epicenter of chronic non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and, increasingly, cancer – that result from lifestyle and diet.
Since 1990, preventable child deaths have declined by 50%, and maternal mortality has fallen by 45%.
The government has put together a global alliance to prevent maternal death in childbirth, investing in both safe delivery and survival of newborns.
Small wonder that Indonesia has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in East Asia.
If we want to achieve the targets established by the Global Goals for maternal health, child health, and infectious disease, we will have to double R&D funding by 2020.
Some conditions, such as neglected tropical diseases, are unique to developing countries, while others, like AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal mortality, affect poor countries disproportionately.
Why?Life expectancy in the US is relatively high, and neonatal and maternal mortality rates are relatively low.
So, when a community gets access to childhood immunization, it is often not long before it also gets access to other services, such as neonatal and maternal care, nutritional supplements, malaria prevention measures, and sexual and reproductive health and education.
The drop in annual maternal deaths from 500,000 in 1990 to 287,000 in 2010 suggests that the 2015 target of 125,000 will be missed.
But, as the 2015 deadline nears, efforts to achieve MDGs must be intensified to ensure further progress on food security, gender equality, maternal health, sanitation, infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Not only does anemia contribute to almost one-fifth of global maternal deaths; babies born to anemic women are also more likely to be underweight.
In fact, his efforts to strengthen Ethiopia’s health system played a crucial role in more than doubling the percentage of Ethiopian women with access to contraception, and in reducing maternal mortality by 75%.
In Washington recently, the United Nations rolled out an action plan that should dramatically accelerate progress on maternal and child health, including HIV.
This makes it all the more difficult for health services in LMICs – which are often under-resourced, equipped solely for acute care, and overwhelmed by high maternal and child mortality and the persistent battle against infectious diseases – to address hypertension and other non-communicable diseases.
These ambitious targets – ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters to achieving universal primary schooling and halting (and beginning to reverse) the spread of HIV/AIDS – are supposed to be met by the end of 2015.
But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.
My maternal grandmother was the only survivor.
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