Improve Maternal Health
Inadequate attention to maternal and reproductive health
The attention to maternal and reproductive health worldwide is often poor and inaccessible, however, many governments are not doing enough to respond to complaints and identify problems, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch presented a summary of their reports on issues related to reproductive health, with views of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, 28 May 2010.
The ten-page summary, “” unaccountable: Addressing Reproductive Health Care Gaps, “(” Irresponsible: Addressing gaps in reproductive health care “), illustrates the lack of accountability of the health system in Asia, Latin America , Africa, America and Europe. The accountability is an important issue of global initiatives to improve maternal health, including those related to the Millennium Development Goals United Nations and the G-8 summit of 2010.
“Governments have long promised to reduce maternal deaths and improve reproductive health care,” said Janet Walsh, deputy director of Women’s Rights at Human Rights Watch. “However, many of them are not even taking basic steps such as allowing patients to file complaints, responding to complaints, establish medical standards and keep track of births and deaths,” he added.
In interviews around the world, hundreds of women and girls have described their attempts to receive reproductive health care as an obstacle course. There are logistical barriers, cultural and financial services and information for and discrimination and health care providers abusive that stand in your way.
Improve Maternal Health
Millennium Development Goals
At the United Nations Organization (UNO) has set the so-called Millennium Development Goals. 8 goals are to propose that should be corrected by 2015. Among them is the desire to improve maternal health, this being the number five.
It’s a bit complicated to think today that complications arise in childbirth, such that it can even cause death of the mother and even the baby. Not only in childbirth but also during pregnancy and the weeks after childbirth, especially the first 6, they are also very important.
Regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are the most accuse these complications, since the year 2005, some 426,000 women died in these regions. This may be because there are complications that can be treated, but in these areas is complicated by the lack of existing facilities and if the probability of maternal mortality in a developed country is 1 in 7300, soars to 1 in 22 in these regions discussed.
These reasons are enough to mark as Millennium Goal, improving maternal health, since between 1990 and 2005 was achieved progress has been minimal if not nil, only 1%, a deemed unacceptable. Read the rest of this entry »