Achieving the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) — to improve maternal health and meet the associated targets to reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio and ensure universal access to reproductive health by 2015 — remains perhaps the greatest development challenge.
African Development Dialogue - Mothers should not die giving life
UN Millennium Campaign Africa Office based in Nairobi, Kenya, supports civil society and citizen engagement in the campaign for the achievement of Millennium Development Goals. The organisation works with various partners including civil society organisations among them faith based organisations, youth and women organisations, parliamentarians and local governments in 14 priority countries in the South, East and West Africa.
PIGA DEBE for Women’s Rights
The Millennium Declaration was unanimously adopted at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000 by 189 heads of state andgovernments. The declaration was then summarized into concrete, achievable; time bound sets of 8 goals with clear targets and indicesof progress known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015.
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health has called on G8 leaders to fulfil their previous commitments to global health and commit to new, long-term financing for essential interventions that could avert the deaths of over 6 million mothers, newborns and children every year.
United Nations Millennium Campaign - Goal 5 - Maternal Health
Every minute a woman dies due to complications in pregnancy or
childbirth, adding up to half a million women dying every year. Another
10-15 million women suffer serious or long-lasting illnesses or
disabilities.
“No woman should die giving life,” said UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid.
“To have a healthy society, you have to have healthy mothers.”
In many countries, however, progress in maternal health has been slow.
In some, the situation has actually deteriorated over the last 20 years.
