Call to G8: Cut maternal deaths during childbirth in the developing world
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.5 million women die in childbirth each year. Most of these deaths could be prevented if the women had access to a skilled birth attendant. The leaders of the world’s richest countries have an opportunity to change this.
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”Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Sierra Leone’s maternal death rate was 2,000. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002.
”The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include hemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregnancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. According to the survey of Afghan women who died postpartum by Dr. Linda Bartlett in 2002, 94% died within 42 days. 56% of these women died in the first 24 hours.”
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