ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Eastern Asia, Northern Africa, and South-Eastern Asia showed declines of 30 per cent or more between 1990 and 2005.
- Since 1995, every region of the developing world has made some progress in improving the availability of skilled health personnel (doctors, nurses or midwives) to assist in deliveries. Overall, the proportion of births attended by skilled health workers in developing regions has increased from 53 per cent in 1990 to 61 per cent in 2007.
Source: UN MDG Report 2009 |
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CHALLENGES:
- There has been a little progress in the developing world. Between 1990 and 2005, numbers went down slightly from 480 maternal deaths per 100 000 births to 450 in 2005. With this rate of progress, the goal will not be achieved by 2015.
- On average, in developing countries, there are 450 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births (in 14 countries mortality rations go over 1000 per 100 000 live births). In comparison, there are nine maternal death per 100 000 live births.
- Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia are the two region requiring most immediate actions. Half of all maternal deaths (265,000) occur in sub-Saharan Africa and another third (187,000) in Southern Asia. Together, these two regions account for 85 per cent of all maternal deaths.
- In Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of all births still take place without the assistance of trained personnel.
Source: UN MDG Report 2009 |
