Fact Sheet N°348 - Updated May 2014
Key Facts
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Every day, approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
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99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
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Maternal mortality is higher in women living in rural areas and among poorer communities.
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Young adolescents face a higher risk of complications and death as a result of pregnancy than older women.
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Skilled care before, during and after childbirth can save the lives of women and newborn babies.
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Between 1990 and 2013, maternal mortality worldwide dropped by almost 50%.
Maternal mortality is unacceptably high. About 800 women die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications around the world every day. In 2013, 289 000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low-resource settings, and most could have been prevented.
The Global Pandemic of Falsified Medicines: Laboratory & Field Innovations & Policy Perspectives
Gaurvika M. L. Nayyar, Joel G. Breman, and James Herrington*
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Gillings Global Gateway, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Summary
INTRODUCTION
This supplement to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, entitled “The pandemic of falsified medicines: laboratory and field innovations and policy perspectives,” showcases 17 articles on detection technologies and methods, field surveillance data, multi-sectorial perspectives, and policy interventions and recommendations needed to create a coordinated and effective response to curb the pandemic of poor-quality medicines.
Fatema,15, sits on the bed at her home in Khulna, Bangladesh. Fatema was saved from being married a few weeks earlier.
Almost half of all women in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are married before eighteen. Globally, adolescents are two times more likely to be out of school than primary school aged children. Nearly eight million 15-24-year-olds in Europe are not in education, employment or training.
Is it time to ask the question: “Are we failing adolescents?”
The 2012 Lancet Series on adolescent health highlighted the links between “structural determinants” – national wealth, inequality and education systems – and adolescent outcomes.
Creating the power for change …
a world that works for all
Launch of the 2015 Rural Women Campaign Kit
“17 Days of Activism for the Empowerment of rural women and their communities
1-17 October
We invite you to rise and claim your rights!
