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UN urges world to prevent women from dying in childbirth
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 07 - 06 - 2010


The world knows how to save women's lives
during childbirth and yet hundreds of thousands still die each year,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said today at the 2010 Women
Deliver Conference, dpa reported.
Some 3,000 attendees gathered for the conference on maternal
health in Washington to discuss improving the situation of women as
part of the UN's Millenium Development Goals.
Ban called for making 2010 the turning point in improving women's
health in childbirth as progress has been "too slow" since the goals
were announced 10 years ago.
Ban proposed a Joint Action Plan that offers a plan to accelerate
progress on women's and children's health and achieve the target of
cutting the death rate by three-quarters by 2015.
The MDGs, launched by the UN General Assembly in 2000, call on
governments to implement programmes in order to achieve progress on
eight goals by 2015. They include halving extreme poverty, halting
the spread of HIV/AIDS, universal primary education for all children
and eliminating gender inequality.
"We know how to save women's lives," Ban told the conference
attended by thousands of delegates from 140 countries, the largest
ever so far.
"Some simple blood tests, consultation with a doctor if available,
and qualified birth attendants, especially midwives, can make a huge
difference," he said.
The risk of deaths can almost be eliminated if basic antibiotics,
blood transfusions, a safe operating room and efficient
transportation were available to women at childbirth, Ban said.
He said 99 per cent of deaths during childbirth deaths happen in
developing countries.
Despite significant progress, 350,000 to 500,000 women still die
in childbirth each year, 3.6 million newborns fail to survive the
first month and an additional 5.2 million children die before the age
of 5, a report to track advances toward the MDGs found in April.
"Our Joint Action Plan demands that all women and children should
benefit from the relatively simple, proven health practices and known
technologies that save lives," Ban said.
"It asks for new commitments from everyone - governments, civil
society, corporations, non-governmental organizations and
international institutions," he said.
He said the plan has a framework to track progress and
accountability is one of the watchwords.
For its part the UN will work to combat the world epidemic of
violence against women and girls, which is a matter of moral
leadership and political will for national leaders, Ban said.
"Empowering women starts at home," Ban said.


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