South Africa is lagging behind in reducing maternal mortality and is unlikely to meet the 2030 global targets to reduce death of mothers to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
said though the country had made progress in the past decade and reduced institutional maternal mortality rate from 147.3 deaths per 100,000 in 2011 to 93.1 per 100,000 in 2019, theput a spanner in the works and between 2020/2021 direct maternal deaths and indirect deaths increased. Deaths were due to Covid-19 infections or disruption in the health services.
will include, but not limited to broad multisectoral, socioeconomic interventions aimed at empowering women.We continue to battle serious problems of prematurity andhaemorrhagremain challenges contributing to maternal deaths. Infections from TB and HIV, re-emergence of previously eradicated conditions, play a part in maternal and neonatal deaths. We are also the increasing congenital abnormalities that have become contributing factors which require more robust interventions.
The report shows that more than 4.5-million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first weeks after birth — equivalent to one death every seven seconds — mostly from preventable or treatable causes if proper care was available.
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