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Maternal Health and Combating AIDS/HIV
Goals
- halt the spread of aids an HIV by 2015
- by 2010 everyone should have access to cures
- by 2015 reverse the occurrence of malaria and other major diseases
aids
- there are currently 33.3 million people living with AIDS in the world
- every year nearly 1.8 million people die of AIDS
The top 2 areas that have aids are
- sub Saharan Africa with 22.5 million people with aids
- south and south east Asia with 4.1 million people with aids
Maternal Health
- May 16th 2012- The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 yrs
- According to new estimates released today by the united nations, which stressed that greater progress is still needed in significantly reducing maternal deaths
Goals for maternal health
- reduce maternal mortality rate by 5 percent
- assess to universal maternal health
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