The writer a researcher in gender and digital rights.
ACCESS to healthcare is part of our basic right to a life of dignity. Despite its universality, healthcare and its denial are felt along lines of class, gender, sexuality, religion, race/ethnicity, (dis)ability and often an intersection of all these. The healthcare system itself reproduces inequalities and systems of oppression that undergird society through inaccessibility and skewed priorities.
Throughout history, the centre of medical research and the reference point for medicine was men’s bodies. In clinical research, women are overwhelmingly underrepresented in trials for medicines and treatments. For instance, while women make up over half of the 35 million people living with HIV worldwide, most trials for treatments focus on men despite the fact that women respond differently to the infection as well as the drugs administered for treatment. This fundamental exclusion on the basis of sex at the starting point of health
IN 1990-91, MMR in Pakistan was 234 per 100,000 live births. It has reduced to 186 and is expected to drop to 138 by year 2030. Similarly, the graph shows provincial data of MMR for years 1990, 2020 and the expected number for the year 2030.
ISLAMABAD: While the federal and provincial governments want to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 70 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030, it currently stands at 186 deaths per 100,000 births, according to a survey launched on Thursday.
Overall, 12 per cent of the deaths among ever-married women between the ages of 15 and 49 years in the past three years were due to maternal causes, says the survey report.
IN 1990-91, MMR in Pakistan was 234 per 100,000 live births. It has reduced to 186 and is expected to drop to 138 by year 2030. Similarly, the graph shows provincial data of MMR for years 1990, 2020 and the expected number for the year 2030.
ISLAMABAD: While the federal and provincial governments want to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 70 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030, it currently stands at 186 deaths per 100,000 births, according to a survey launched on Thursday.
Overall, 12 per cent of the deaths among ever-married women between the ages of 15 and 49 years in the past three years were due to maternal causes, says the survey report.
‘Mortality rate reduction a must to meet SDGs’
Islamabad
December 11, 2020
Islamabad: President Dr. Arif Alvi Thursday said that though Pakistan had brought down maternal mortality rate to 186 per 1,000 births, it was a must to reduce it further to 70 to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
”I think we must achieve this Sustainable Development Goal of 70 by the year 2030. We believe very strongly that if poverty in Pakistan has to be reduced, it is important that the health situation of the populace has also to be improved,” said the president while addressing a webinar on Pakistan Maternal Mortality Survey.
He said as per demographic survey of 2006-7, the country had 276 maternal mortality rate per 1000 births.