Every Minute Counts: Improve Maternal Health (MDG #5 / EngenderHealth) - 2008

http://engenderhealth.org/mdg5

Why is maternal health a Millennium Development Goal? Because healthy mothers are critical for families, communities, and countries. And yet, every minute of every day, a woman dies due to pregnancy or childbirth. That is more than 1400 dead every 24 hours -- more than 500,000 women a year. But change is possible. It is already happening.

Visit http://www.engenderhealth.org/mdg5 for more information about MDG #5, and to help.

Subscribe to the EngenderHealth YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/engenderhealth -- with over 60 videos on sexual and reproductive health issues such as HIV and AIDS, family planning, obstetric fistula, and more.

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[Tabascho]

What a great goal! I will help as soon as I have money to spare -starving college student-

[314spartan91]

Thank you for spreading the word and keep up the amazing work.

[Dekortage]

Actually you DO have to worry about "overcrowding" in many places. And having less people DOES take away problems. If a women have fewer children (say, 3 instead of 6), then infant mortality goes down, child mortality goes down, maternal mortality goes down -- significantly. The long-term economic impact of having too many kids is very apparent, as well: more mouths to feed means fewer opportunities for getting out of poverty, which means the kids will be starting at the bottom too.

[Dekortage]

I fully agree with the "give a man a fish" principle (which is actually what EngenderHealth does for reproductive health, if you read through their web site) but I think you have missed the "exploitation of the poor" aspect of poverty, both locally and globally. This is not about people not working hard; it's about people not having options.

[anon540]

As far back as we have recorded history poverty ALWAYS has a reason. In this case there are two things that need to be fixed;

A; Stop feeding all the food to rats, and

B; Get up off your ass and do some work.

"Make the rich people work twice as hard to feed the people who won't" has never worked. There's an old saying.

Give a man a fish:

[anon540]

So this deal with "killing babies is good for your health" is bullshit. I'm glad someone finally brought that out.

[LordSlag]

Every pregnancy planned and wanted? SHIT, that doesn't happen in Britain or the United States of Jesus. Let's put our own affairs in order first, shall we?

[PivotMasterX4]

weve got enough money for weapons and tanks

SO WHY THE HELL NOT FOR FOOD FOR THE POOR COUNTRIES.

[Joey198687Heller]

let's just worrie about the US for a change.

[khnulamei]

landfill??? besides, old people die all the timr, giving the space to newborns. lazy ones should be taught by government ang guided not erradicated. otherwise there is no real growth.

[jetrpg22]

No there is a real world out there Anniebh.

See the earth is only so big 510,065,600 km2 surface area (including the water) So no you can not keep having babies forever. And only so much of it can grow food.

Hunger in industrialized societies occur, however, it is do to parents not feeding their children because they are to lazy to.(The gov. will feed your kids).

Poverty occurs (lets just say it)in advanced societies, why because someone will always be on the bottom, its usually the lazy ones.