Reducing maternal mortality and morbidity
Commitment description:We commit to achieve maternal mortality Rate of 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030 and reduce maternal morbidity, by, integrating a comprehensive approach to the essential sexual and reproductive health package, including measures for preventing unsafe abortions, and comprehensive abortion care, into the national UHC strategies, policies and programmes.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionReducing maternal mortality and morbidity
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
