Millennium Development Goal #5 - Improving Maternal Health
BACKGROUND In September 2000, world leaders came together at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to develop the United Nations Millennium Declaration...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009, is International Mother’s Day. While it is a time to honor our own mothers, this day should also remind us of the 500,000 women who die every year from complications due to pregnancy and childbirth, and spur us to take action. http://malta.mothersnight.com

The number one killer of young women in the developing world is not a disease whose cure eludes us, or a condition which the world lacks the resources to treat. It is pregnancy and childbirth.
Every year, 500,000 women die while trying to give life. That’s one every single minute.

The vast majority of these deaths are preventable. As part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – a set of promises made in the year 2000 to eradicate extreme poverty, improve health, education and the environment and create a global partnership for development – 189 world leaders have pledged to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015. But maternal health has seen the least progress of all of the MDGs, and the Goal is unlikely to be achieved unless urgent action is taken now.

MOTHERSNIGHT -
Morroccan Food
South African Wines
African Musicians
VILLA ARRIGO 6th MAY 2009
20.00hrs-20.30hrs
25 EUROS
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SOS Malta invite you to support Safe Motherhood in Developing Countries.

Every minute of today, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth
Join us at Villa Arrigo as your gift on Mothers Day to Maternal Wellbeing.
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'SAFE MOTHERHOOD IS A HUMAN RIGHT. WE MUST EMPOWER WOMEN AND ENSURE CHOICES......OUR TASK AND THE TASK OF MANY LIKE US, MANY HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS LIKE US, IS TO ENSURE THAT IN THE NEXT DECADE SAFE MOTHERHOOD IS NOT REGARDED AS A FRINGE ISSUE, BUT AS A CENTRAL ISSUE.' James D. Wolfensohn. President, World Bank