Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
After delivering my daughter in 2003, I endured and survived a hemorrhage, the leading childbirth-related complication that takes the lives of thousands of other mothers all over the world.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.
Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.
There are disparities in accessing quality maternity health care in most every country, and most all health systems could and must be improved upon if we want to create healthy families who will thrive.
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
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