Millennium Development Goal 5
The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals initiated by the United Nations. The goals are to be completed by 2015. Millennium Development Goal 5 is:
1. To reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015
2. To achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health [16]
This goal has made slow progress, according to maternal health indicators. [17] The poor prognosis for this goal inspired me to study maternal health care in Uganda.
Millennium Development Goals Quick Facts:
More than 350,000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy or childbirth, almost all of them — 99 per cent — in developing countries.
The maternal mortality rate is declining only slowly, even though the vast majority of deaths are avoidable.
In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman’s maternal mortality risk is 1 in 30, compared to 1 in 5,600 in developed regions.
Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless. Children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not. [18]
Click here to view the 2010 Millennium Development Goals Report
Click here to view the view the Millennium Development Goals Fact Sheet
1. To reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015
2. To achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health [16]
This goal has made slow progress, according to maternal health indicators. [17] The poor prognosis for this goal inspired me to study maternal health care in Uganda.
Millennium Development Goals Quick Facts:
More than 350,000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy or childbirth, almost all of them — 99 per cent — in developing countries.
The maternal mortality rate is declining only slowly, even though the vast majority of deaths are avoidable.
In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman’s maternal mortality risk is 1 in 30, compared to 1 in 5,600 in developed regions.
Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless. Children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not. [18]
Click here to view the 2010 Millennium Development Goals Report
Click here to view the view the Millennium Development Goals Fact Sheet