make women count!

Make Women Count!

and its research center:

MATERNAL DEATH:

WHO defines maternal death as: The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.

The death of a woman from any cause relatedto or aggravated by the pregnancy, delivery and postpartum.

EACH MOTHER’S DEATHhas a domino effect in developing countries :

Women

Children

Family and community

LOSS in productivity (15.000 M

US$ / year)

IMPOVERISHMENT

Good nutrition, school enrollment and survival rates

DECREASE dramatically

Country

Deprived from leading long and prosperous lives

AN

ESTIMATED

women die annually dueto maternal causes

300,000

What are these mothers dying from?

THE truth is…

WE currently rely on

ESTIMATES.

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More than ½ of the world’s deaths pass by…

THIS IS A MAJOR CONCERN: reliable cause-of-death data are crucial for

HEALTH PLANNING and PRIORITIZATION

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We are missing VITAL EVENT DATA

to determine maternal deaths :

Over 80% of all births occur in countries where maternal cause of death data DON’T EXIST or are INCOMPLETE

88 countries LACK complete data

27 countries have NO data

65 countries have COMPLETE data

In many settings what we DON’T know

prevents us from

reducingMATERNALMORTALITY

To effectively addressmaternal mortality…

WHAT WOMEN

DIE FROM

We first need to find out

POLITICAL WILL = More resources so that every country canACHIEVE A MINIMUM SET OF VITAL DATA.

The solution starts with…

And grows with…

NEW efficient, easy-to-implement, and cost-effective tools to measure mortality and help close the data gap!

Minimal invasive

autopsies

Reproductive-age

mortality studies

Civil Registration

system

Verbal autopsy

Household surveys

Census

R&D=

BETTER MATERNAL HEALTH.

Designingbetter

interventions and programs

Monitoring maternal mortality

trends Accountingfor individual

deaths

Better data means…

For moreinformation:

www.isglobal.org