Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Indicators

Target 5a: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

• 5,1 Maternal mortality ratio

• 5,2 Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

Target 5b: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

• 5,3 Contraceptive prevalence rate

• 5,4 Adolescent birth rate

• 5,5 Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit and at least four visits)

• 5,6 Unmet need for family planning

Are we on target?
Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high across much of the developing world. In 2005, more than 500,000 women died during pregnancy, childbirth or in the six weeks after delivery. Ninety-nine per cent of these deaths occurred in the developing regions, with sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia accounting for 86 per cent of them.

In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman’s risk of dying from treatable or preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth over the course of her lifetime is 1 in 22, compared to 1 in 7,300 in the developed regions.

MDG 5 Solutions

Medicine For Humanity: Works to improve the health of women in underserved populations by bringing much needed medical care and creating sustainable programs of education, prevention and treatment. Read On

Global Fund for Women: International network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. Since 1987 they have awarded over $71 million to 3,800 women's organizations in 167 countries.

Malnutrition Matters: providing sustainable food technology solutions for malnutrition, primarily by using soya, but also cereals, grains, fruits and vegetables. These plant-based foods offer the greatest nutritional, environmental and economic benefits.

Nothing But Nets: Every $10 contribution to Nothing But Nets covers the cost of purchasing a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net, distributing it, and educating communities on its use. see video

Project Concern International (PCI): Lifesaving resources for high-risk pregnancies and complications during childbirth.

GMHC: World’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy.

Doctors Without Borders:  Over 27,000 nurses and doctors who volunteer to provide medical to people whose survival is threatened by armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

 

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