The Global and National Maternal Mortality Targets for the Sustainable Development Goals
Posted onThere has been some confusion recently about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets for reducing maternal mortality. The SDG global target is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. In addition to this global target, there are separate country-level targets: The primary national target is that every country should reduce its MMR by at least two-thirds from 2010 baseline levels by 2030. The secondary target, which applies to countries with the highest maternal mortality burdens, is that no country should have an MMR greater than 140 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030…read more
Trust Black Women: Reproductive Justice in the United States and Around the World
Posted onThe Women and Health Initiative and the Women, Gender, and Health interdisciplinary concentration at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health hosted a seminar featuring Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Though Monica’s talk focused on reproductive justice in United States, the issues she discussed are indeed global ones. Disrespect and abuse during childbirth, for example, has been documented around the world. Women in rural areas cannot access maternity care because they live too far away from a health facility; and even if they manage to get to a facility, they may deliver without electricity, safe water and the resources necessary to manage obstetric emergencies. Additionally, millions of women around the world have an unmet need for family planning…read more