Blog discussion today.
Maternal Health- To make the world a better place. To prevent women's death while [regnant. Maternal death is when a woman dies withing 42 days of termination of the pregnancy. The maternal mortality rate is slowly declining. Every year over 1 million children are left motherless. In sub-Saharan Africa a women's' maternal mortality is 1in 30, compared to 1 in 5,600 in developed regions. Reduce by 3 quarters from 1990-2015. Achieve universal access to reproductive health.
Combating HIV/AIDS- Hat and reverse the spread of these diseases. Achieve by 2012 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS. Halt and reverse by 2015 the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. Every day, over 7,500 people are infected by HIV/AIDS, and over 5,500 of those people die of AIDS. Every 9 minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected by AIDS. Roughly 33.4 million people live with HIV, 2/3 of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1981, 1.7 million people have been diagnosed with AIDS or HIV in the U.S. alone.
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