Global pregnant and parturient women's death decreasing amplitude is still

Global pregnant and parturient women's death decreasing amplitude is still below standard
Geneva, September 15 (Xinhua) ' Reporter Yang JingDe) A plurality of organizations such as World Health Organization jointly deliver a report saying on the 15th, women have and given birth to the number of people of the complication death already from 546,000 358,000 dropped to 2008s in 1990 because of gestation, decreasing amplitude reaches 34%, but does not meet the requirement of millennium development goal of the United Nations yet.

WHO, United Nations Children's Fund, fund and " lying-in woman's mortality trend " that World Bank deliver jointly, people of the United Nations, say, reducing pregnant and parturient women's mortality makes obvious progress, but the development goal was from 1990 to 2015 in millennium when the United Nations established, pregnant and parturient women's mortality is reduced by 75%, present decreasing amplitude is less than half of this goals.

The report points out, from 1990 to 2008, it was dropping by 2.3% every year that pregnant and parturient women's mortality reduced the range, but it needs to realize 5.5% of the decreasing amplitude every year to realize the goal of development in millennium.

Say, pregnant and parturient women's death mainly has 4 reasons, bleeding postpartum, infection, hypertension and unsafe induced abortion. In 2008, nearly 1000 women die of these complications every day in the whole world, mainly centre in Africa and South Asia country.

Though is still far from millennium development goal of the United Nations, Margaret Chan, Secretary General of WHO, thinks, pregnant and parturient women's mortality drops in an all-round way encouragingly, pregnant and parturient women's gestation or country that gave birth to the death with higher risk has taken a great deal of effective measures, have trained more midwives, has strengthened the strength of health organs such as the hospital,etc..

Rec of Anthony, executive director of United Nations Children's Fund says in a joint communique released on the same day, in order to further improve pregnant and parturient women's health status, save more women's lives, the international community should make more efforts, offer medical attendance for those gestation or women giving birth to the death with higher risk, these women include pregnant and parturient women who live in the country of chaos caused by war, remote area or poor family and pregnant and parturient women who carry HIV,etc..



Global pregnant and parturient women's death decreasing amplitude is still below standard