UMA LULIK: Maternal health

Investment needs in maternal, newborn & child health in Asia & Pacific

What

Briefing "Preventing the other crisis: Investment needs in maternal, newborn and child health in Asia and the Pacific"

WHY

Despite decades of rapid economic growth, Asia and the Pacific accounts for nearly half of the global burden in maternal, newborn and child health. But countries can achieve long term health benefits and generate significant economic returns, by investing as little as US$3 annually per capita. Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 to reduce maternal and child mortality can be achieved for as little as US$12 annually per capita according to the latest analysis by international development agencies and national governments.

WHEN

Thursday, 21 May 2009, at 12:30 p.m., Salle de Presse III, Palais des Nations

WHO

Neil McFarlane, Counsellor, Development, AusAID
Ian Pett, Chief Health Systems and Strategic Planning, UNICEF
Dr Flavia Bustreo, Acting Head of Secretariat, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Representative of the Ministry of Health, Nepal

CONTACT

Tunga Namjilsuren
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Telephone: +41 22 791 1073
Mobile: +41 76 494 32 39
Email: namjilsurent@who.int or
Web site: www.pmnch.org

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"[...] Each year, four million babies die in their first month of life, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all under-five deaths. Also every year, half a million women die in childbirth or from complications during pregnancy. The Countdown report cited a figure that grimly links these two stark stats: about half of women in the 68 priority countries undergo childbirth without skilled care or emergency obstetric services.[...]" (Report on child and maternal mortality released at the Countdown to 2015 conference in Cape Town, South Africa)

Charles Darwin University research targets maternal health in East Timor

"CDU research targets mothers’ health in East Timor 8/01/2009 - A PhD candidate from Charles Darwin University is working to increase understanding of maternal health in East Timor.

Kayli Wild, who is studying through CDU’s Graduate School of Health Practice, presented a paper on the subject at East Timor’s first Health Sciences Conference in Dili recently.

The paper, entitled “Maternal health policy development: lessons for implementation in Timor Leste”, provoked discussion on the country’s current national policy on maternal health.

The policy includes a proposal that maternity waiting homes be developed to improve access to a delivery facility for women in rural areas.

Currently, about 90 per cent of women in East Timor give birth outside the health system, contributing to high rates of maternal mortality. [...]" (East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin)

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