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7 - Outlining the Global Duties of Justice owed to Women living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

from Part 2 - Who is Responsible for Remedying Global Health Inequality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2013

Angela Kaida
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University
Patti Tamara Lenard
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Patti Tamara Lenard
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Christine Straehle
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
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Maternal mortality is the world's worst health inequity. Every day a thousand women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; 99 per cent of these maternal deaths occur in developing countries (World Health Organization 2010). There is a 400-fold difference in the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) between the country with the highest MMR (Afghanistan MMR = 1,575 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) and the country with the lowest MMR (Italy MMR = 4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births). Recent reviews of progress on improving maternal health reveal a positive trend toward fewer global maternal deaths, from 526,000 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008 (Hogan et al. 2010). This decrease was observed across all countries and regions with one notable exception, sub-Saharan Africa, where the MMR increased over time and accounts for over half (52 per cent) of global maternal deaths. The primary reason driving this trend is the large, feminised HIV epidemics in the region. Without HIV (or, arguably, with universal access to antiretroviral treatment services), annual maternal deaths would have been 20 per cent lower in 2008 (that is, 61,000 excess maternal deaths per year due to HIV). The starkness of this finding led the editor of The Lancet to conclude that ‘the connection between HIV and maternal health is now explicitly laid bare’ (Horton 2010).

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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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