make women count!
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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…
