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It affects us all: Maternal healthcare – Conversations for a Better World — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:59 +0000

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By: Marysia

Marysia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:03:32 +0000

Exactly.

By: Video response: The High maternal mortality rate in Nepal – Conversations for a Better World

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:53:51 +0000

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By: Jashodhara

Jashodhara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:11:44 +0000

It’s a crisis of amazing proportions, yet its totally unseen. I work in Uttar Pradesh where we estimate around 25000 women dying each year (conservative estimates).
Each tragic death and near-miss that we record (and we have done a few hundred over the last ten years) in the remote rural areas of Uttar Pradesh is a story of apathetic, corrupt and unskilled health staff, of health centres in shambles, of poor families rushing around in desperation, struggling to prevent the death and sinking into deep debt as a result, of small children left motherless and a father devastated by this experience of total powerlessness.
The good news is that there is now a group of around 8000 women who are organized to demand their rights to quality health-care services, who are monitoring their entitlements and engaging in dialogue with health officials and elected leaders. Admittedly its a drop in the ocean. But that’s what keeps us going….

By: Barbara Ayebare

Barbara Ayebare — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:36:42 +0000

Pregnant women have 100%rights to live. All we need is good government policies and better hospital services.I come from Uganda,but you find that the maternal death rate is on increase where as the Millennium development goal 5 says that Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality by 2010.So my concern is why the development goals,have they not been implemented? I think focus was put more into education,HIV and other diseases and little to maternal health.

Women need to be sensitized more about their rights.I don’t see any reason to why a woman in labor should be asked to buy gloves and other necessities in a government hospital.

By: SRHR Sit Report: Maternal Mortality « Brook Elliott-Buettner, MSW, MPA

SRHR Sit Report: Maternal Mortality « Brook Elliott-Buettner, MSW, MPA — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:52:54 +0000

[...] Says one UNFPA communications specialist, more women die in childbirth than in wars. Ban Ki Moon recently called current rates of maternal mortality “inexcusable,” espcially in a world where we can “map the human genome and send vehicles to far reaches of space.” In addition, simple clinical interventions could drastically reduce the numbers of deaths, according to public health journal The Lancet. [...]

By: Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:20:59 +0000

Most people don’t think about it but if every man on the planet disappeared and there were left some frozen sperm, humanity could start over. But if every woman disappeared that is THE END! The world has it all backwards. When the world takes care of women, women take care of the world. Gender inequality is the moral scourge of the age. There is nothing to equal it in terms of human failings.

I am cofounder of 34 Million Friends of the UN Population Fund. I want the Cairo ICPD consensus to be fully implemented. I hear that filling the family planning gap would prevent 40% of maternal deaths. Gender inequality is the reason why ICPD is falling way behind. Women’s lives both literally and figuratively are a low priority. What a tragedy!

By: k.sandra

k.sandra — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:06:54 +0000

Good post.

In Uganda maternal mortality is too frequent and quiet scary.

The problem is that we have is insuffient good health care services. The infrastructure is poor plus the personnel are limited especially in the rural areas.
Most of the women in rural areas have to walk long distances to the health centre and at times on getting there, there is a long que and may end up not being attended to.

Poverty is also another issue that increases maternal mortality. A number of women do not have well paying jobs so the have to depend on their husbands for money. The little money she gets from the husband is used for the children and the home essentials, this leaves very little to spend on herself.

Sandra

By: rumbleth

rumbleth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:46:19 +0000

Loved the post.

We seemed to have a lot of solutions and answers to many global problems…there is a huge disconnect between knowing and doing as we are all aware.

I wonder if the reaction to some of the statistics mentioned in the post about maternal rights in South Asia would have the same response if it was the situation in Canada for example?

We have the data, knowledge, and tools….are we lacking support and finances perhaps? And who do we go to for resources, perhaps we need to review our models for resource mobilization and think outside of the box?

Tanya