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Yet the fight against substandard drugs has never been taken as seriously as other global health crises such as malaria, HIV, or maternal and infant mortality.
First, we must encourage innovation by offering research grants to support small initiatives or large-scale projects (like campaigns to fight HIV, malaria, and maternal mortality).
For example, the Demographic and Health Survey is conducted regularly to determine things like childhood and maternal death rates.
Collecting and analyzing relevant data is vital as the country struggles to achieve the Millennium Development Goals established in 2000, particularly the targets for improving maternal health and reducing infant and child mortality.
Birth in a Time of Antibiotic-Resistant BacteriaGENEVA/NEW YORK – King Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, all lost their mothers to infections following childbirth, and literature abounds with tragic stories of maternal death, from A Christmas Carol to Wuthering Heights, Far From the Madding Crowd, A Farewell to Arms, Revolutionary Road, Lolita, and Harry Potter.
But maternal and infant mortality is not confined to the past, much less to fiction.
In high-income countries, maternal and infant mortality is now rare, owing to a century of improvements in hygiene and infection control.
The US, which remains the world’s largest donor for nutrition programs and for maternal and child health initiatives, is leading the funding retreat.
Start with maternal mortality.
From 1990 to 2015, Albania reduced its maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 29.3 to 9.6.
Meanwhile, the trend in the United States, the paragon of free-market democracy, has gone in the opposite direction, with maternal deaths per 100,000 live births actually rising, from 16.9 in 1990 to 26.4 in 2015.
Within 25 years, it will cause 10 million deaths a year worldwide –more than malaria, maternal deaths, childhood infections, and diarrhea combined .
Given the importance of education for virtually every meaningful indicator of development – from child survival to maternal health and poverty reduction – this failure will spill over to other SDGs.
Without a state that is capable of delivering routine maternal and child health care, these children will continue to die.
Infant mortality has been cut by more than half, and maternal mortality by 45%.
Before 2010, these countries were experiencing increased life expectancy as well as reduced infectious disease burdens and infant and maternal mortality.
It is successful entrepreneurs mentoring start-up entrepreneurs, and NGOs engaging not just with the government, but also with commercial outfits to get support for activities that will address vexing social problems such as maternal and infant mortality.
Its resources have helped to train new generations of doctors, nurses, and technicians, while dramatically improving the overall quality of maternal and child health.
To reduce maternal illness and death, women and girls need easy and consistent access to contraception, maternal health services, and sexually transmitted infection and cancer screening and treatment.
If left unchecked, that figure is expected to rise to 416,000 by 2035, overtaking maternal deaths.
Frequent pregnancies, especially in countries without universal modern health care, are associated with high maternal mortality.
Providing them with access to contraception would help them plan their lives as they wish, weaken demand for abortion, reduce maternal deaths, give children a better start in life, and contribute to slowing population growth and greenhouse-gas emissions, thus benefiting us all.
As historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote, they are rather tempted to go back to the maternal “womb”.
Several countries, including Armenia, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Kenya, have already made successful strides in this direction, using means-tested food-voucher programs, maternal and family benefits, school-based social services, and conditional cash-transfer schemes targeting the most vulnerable groups, such as orphans.
But huge progress was made: hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty, maternal mortality has been reduced by almost half, and millions more children are now in school.
Aid for child and maternal health has grown dramatically since 2000, and now stands at some $12 billion annually.
Forcing desperately poor women to pay for maternal and child health care is a prescription for inequality, inefficiency, and child deaths.
Developing-country governments should be spending at least 5% of GDP on health, eliminating charges on child and maternal health care, and ensuring that financial resources – and health workers – are allocated in a way that reduces inequalities in care.
“Until recently, pediatric tuberculosis has been relatively neglected by the broader TB and the maternal and child health communities,” the authors write.
The SDGs will be modeled on the Millennium Development Goals, which were agreed in 2000 and focused on objectives like lowering maternal and infant mortality, eradicating poverty, and improving access to primary education.
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