2007/10/12
BERNAMA
BANGKOK, FRI:
Malaysia has one of the lowest maternal mortalities in Southeast Asia, with 340 deaths in 2005 while India has the highest in the world, with 117,00, a new report shows.
Brunei has the lowest rate in the region with only one recorded case in 2005, followed by Singapore with five, while Indonesia registered the biggest number of maternal mortalities with 19,000 cases.
There were 4,600 cases in the Philippines, Myanmar (3,700), Cambodia (2,300), Vietnam (2,500) Laos (1,300) and Thailand (1,100).
According to the “Maternal Mortality in 2005” report, the world’s maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to improve maternal health and prevent women from dying in pregnancy and childbirth.
While an annual decline of 5.5 per cent in maternal mortality ratios between 1990 and 2015 is required to achieve MDG 5, figures released today show an annual decline of less than one per cent.
In 2005, 536,000 women died of maternal causes, compared with 576,000 in 1990. Ninety-nine per cent of these deaths occurred in developing countries.
The new global estimates of maternal mortality report was released by the World Health Organisation, Unicef, UNFPA and the World Bank, six days before world leaders and experts gather in London for the Women Deliver conference on making pregnancy and childbirth safer.
Eleven countries accounted for almost 65 per cent of global maternal deaths in 2005, with India topping the chart with 117,000, followed by Nigeria (59,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (32,000) and Afghanistan (26,000).
Slightly more than one half of the maternal deaths (270,000) occurred in the sub-Saharan Africa region, followed by South Asia (188,000), and together, these two regions accounted for 86 per cent of the world’s maternal deaths in 2005.
To achieve MDG 5 and reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75 per cent before 2015, improving health care for women and providing universal access to reproductive health services must be made a priority, the report says.
“This includes access to family planning, prevention of unplanned pregnancies and provision of high-quality pregnancy and delivery care, including emergency obstetric care,” it adds.
Brunei has the lowest rate in the region with only one recorded case in 2005, followed by Singapore with five, while Indonesia registered the biggest number of maternal mortalities with 19,000 cases.
There were 4,600 cases in the Philippines, Myanmar (3,700), Cambodia (2,300), Vietnam (2,500) Laos (1,300) and Thailand (1,100).
According to the “Maternal Mortality in 2005” report, the world’s maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to improve maternal health and prevent women from dying in pregnancy and childbirth.
While an annual decline of 5.5 per cent in maternal mortality ratios between 1990 and 2015 is required to achieve MDG 5, figures released today show an annual decline of less than one per cent.
In 2005, 536,000 women died of maternal causes, compared with 576,000 in 1990. Ninety-nine per cent of these deaths occurred in developing countries.
The new global estimates of maternal mortality report was released by the World Health Organisation, Unicef, UNFPA and the World Bank, six days before world leaders and experts gather in London for the Women Deliver conference on making pregnancy and childbirth safer.
Eleven countries accounted for almost 65 per cent of global maternal deaths in 2005, with India topping the chart with 117,000, followed by Nigeria (59,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (32,000) and Afghanistan (26,000).
Slightly more than one half of the maternal deaths (270,000) occurred in the sub-Saharan Africa region, followed by South Asia (188,000), and together, these two regions accounted for 86 per cent of the world’s maternal deaths in 2005.
To achieve MDG 5 and reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75 per cent before 2015, improving health care for women and providing universal access to reproductive health services must be made a priority, the report says.
“This includes access to family planning, prevention of unplanned pregnancies and provision of high-quality pregnancy and delivery care, including emergency obstetric care,” it adds.
5 comments:
The Cambodia's maternal mortality rate says a lot about Cambodian living of standard and the broken healthcare system!
Well, at least our poor broken healthcare system kicked some asses.
Anyway, there is a drastic improvement in Cambodia's maternal mortality rate in the last decades or so. I computed it a while back and I remembered the improvement rate were somewhere between .5 and 1% per year.
If you look the number of deaths comparing to the population Cambodia is not doing very well. There are much more we have to do.
Yeah, but that is not deceiving because the bigger the population you have the more dead you have; that is why we use ratio to compare among countries. Personally, I like to use the popular percentage and in this case, it is 2.3% or 2.3 out of 100.
Correction: Yeah, but that is very deceiving because the bigger the population ...
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