{"id":27012,"date":"2024-05-22T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/upcoming-who-resolution-must-galvanize-action-to-tackle-preventable-maternal-and-child-mortality\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:14:40","slug":"upcoming-who-resolution-must-galvanize-action-to-tackle-preventable-maternal-and-child-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/upcoming-who-resolution-must-galvanize-action-to-tackle-preventable-maternal-and-child-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming WHO Resolution must galvanize action to tackle preventable Maternal and Child Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Geneva (Switzerland), May 22:<\/strong> \u00a0The Global progress on improving maternal, newborn, and child survival has stalled. In an article published in The Lancet,\u00a0Ali Hajji Adam,\u00a0Ministry of Health, Somalia (AHA) and\u00a0Mekdes Dab,\u00a0Ministry of Health, Ethiopia stated that many regions of the world continue to experience persistently high rates of maternal and child mortality, and despite improvements between 2000 and 2015, progress is now stagnating.\u00a0The combination of ongoing and new conflicts, climate change, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic create a perfect storm to drive back any gains that might have been made during the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) era. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The global community is off track from the targets for reducing maternal mortality\u00a0(SDG 3.1) and\u00a0ending preventable deaths of newborns and children younger than 5 years (SDG 3.2).\u00a0Globally, 287\u2009000 women died from a maternal cause in 2020, averaging 223 deaths of mothers for each livebirth. For children younger than 5 years, 4\u00b79 million died globally in 2022, 2\u00b73 million of these in the first month of life<a>.<\/a>\u00a0In addition, almost 1\u00b79 million babies were stillborn in 2021. The stark reality is that 46 countries are projected to have a ratio greater than 140 maternal deaths per 100\u2009000 livebirths by 2030, 59 countries will miss the SDG target for mortality for those younger than 5 years, and even more\u201464 countries\u2014will miss the neonatal mortality target.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy is that so many of these deaths are preventable. More than 70% of maternal deaths are due to obstetric causes\u00a0including hypertension, sepsis, abortion, and embolism. As for mortality for those younger than 5 years, prematurity is the leading cause, while birth trauma and asphyxia, acute respiratory infections, malaria, diarrhoea, and congenital anomalies are among the top causes.\u00a0It is an indictment of the global health community that we know these facts and have done very little about them. There is a myriad of approaches that could be tailor-made for each challenge, but the political will to do so has been lost.\u00a0This is why the\u00a0World Health Assembly\u00a0Resolution\u00a0on maternal, newborn, and child health\u00a0is crucial. Initiated by Somalia, co-sponsored by Botswana, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Tanzania, the Resolution is going through consultation, with growing support from other member states, and is considered to be essential to future progress in maternal and child survival.<\/p>\n<p>The Resolution aims to tackle the persistent disparities in maternal, newborn, and child health and\u00a0accelerate progress. It\u00a0calls for urgent action to address inequities across the life course to create resilient health systems focused on primary health care. The Resolution is a resounding call for prioritising\u00a0maternal, newborn, and child health in policy, service delivery, and financing.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy and empowered women, children, and adolescents are central to the transformational change envisioned by the 2030 Agenda. Investing in their wellbeing leads to healthier communities, vibrant economies, and more prosperous, peaceful, and resilient societies. That is why the entire continuum of care must always be considered, starting with the health and wellbeing of parents before conception, and then following through all stages of a newborn\u2019s, child\u2019s, and adolescent\u2019s life. Otherwise, the global community risks looking back at the SDG era as one that failed vulnerable mothers and children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, what works is known.\u00a0Successful approaches include\u00a0high-quality essential health and nutrition services;\u00a0a multipronged approachto maximise resources and address workforce shortages; stronger primary health-care delivery; prioritising the hardest-to-reach\u00a0communities; and universal access to reproductive and sexual health services.\u00a0Knowing what works is just the beginning. Successfully implementing these strategies requires political will, unerring commitment, and consistent investments. That is why massively accelerated action is needed and why the Resolution matters with support from all\u00a0stakeholders, stated Ali Hajji Adam,\u00a0Ministry of Health, Somalia (AHA) and\u00a0Mekdes Dab,\u00a0Ministry of Health, Ethiopia\u00a0in an article published in The Lancet.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification@gmail.com to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva (Switzerland), May 22: \u00a0The Global progress on improving maternal, newborn, and child survival has stalled. In an article published in The Lancet,\u00a0Ali Hajji Adam,\u00a0Ministry of Health, Somalia (AHA) and\u00a0Mekdes Dab,\u00a0Ministry of Health, Ethiopia stated that many regions of the world continue to experience persistently high rates of maternal and child mortality, and despite improvements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-27012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shekhawatisamachar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}