Goals

Fifth goal

MATERNAL HEALTH

INTRODUCTION
Many people consider the day their child was born the happiest day in their life. In theworld's wealthier countries, that is. In poorer countries, the day a child born is all too oftenthe day its mother dies.

The lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa is 1in 22, while it is 1 in 120 in Asia and 1 in 7,300 in developed countries.

THE TARGETS
Goal 5 of the Millennium Development Goals sets out by the year 2015 to:

• Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
• Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health.

(source: UN Millennium Campaign website www.endpoverty2015.org )

DID YOU KNOW?
More than half a million women die in pregnancy and childbirth every year - that's onedeath every minute. Of these deaths, 99 per cent are in developing countries. The lifetimerisk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa is 1 in 22, while it is 1 in 120 in Asia and1 in 7,300 in developed countries.(Source: UNFPA)

Only 28 in 100 women giving birth are attended by trained health personnel in the leastdeveloped countries. (Source: ActionAid)