A manifesto for maternal health post-2015.
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چکیده
On Jan 15–17, 2013, over 800 experts in maternal health came together in Arusha, Tan zania, to present the latest evidence on improving the quality of care for women during pregnancy and childbirth. The past 25 years of the safe motherhood movement have seen extraordinary successes—notably a 33% reduction in maternal mortality from 409 053 in 1990 to 273 465 in 2011. These achieve ments have motivated and mobilised a welcome new generation of political and fi nancial commitments to maternal health. But with the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) drawing to a close in 2015, a moment of uncertainty hangs over the fate of more than 200 million women who become pregnant each year. As the world moves towards the next set of development goals, will the gains of the past for women be protected, and can the unfi nished business for the future be addressed? As a contribution to the process of redefi ning human development for women after 2015, participants at the Arusha conference supported writing a manifesto for maternal health based on the best available evidence, the lessons of safe motherhood from the past 25 years, and the more recent experience of the MDGs. We welcome a vigorous debate about this manifesto. Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s Minister of Health, opened the conference in Arusha by looking back
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Lancet
دوره 381 9867 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013