Date uploaded: 2023-09-13 17:55:12
Every two minutes, a mother dies from complications due to childbirth, while two million babies are stillborn each year, and five million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. The oldest public health problem—the survival of mothers and babies—remains the most urgent. But it is also increasingly solvable.
Researchers have learned more about the health of mothers and babies over the past decade than they did in the century before—everything from the exact diseases that are killing children, to the role anemia can play in increasing blood loss during childbirth, to previously unknown links between a baby’s health and their mother’s.
If our delivery of care can keep pace with our learning—and low-cost innovations can reach the communities where moms and kids need it most—we can save millions of lives. #Goalkeepers2030