- Assistance cuts result in “epidemics -like effects” on health systems.
- Further “more structural, deeply seated effects can be: Dr. Oilly.
- Important services for maternal, newborn, child health is being rolled back.
London: Cut for budget assistance is threatening to reduce years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and delivery, and may increase deaths, the United Nations has warned.
Globally, maternal deaths declined by 40%, between 2000 and 2023, a report of United Nations Agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO), shows a report on Mondays, which was due to better reach to large -scale essential health services.
It can now go to reverse, the WHO said in a statement with the report, which did not mention specific cuts, but came to the end of funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for freeze and many programs by the US government.
Other donor countries, including Britain, have also announced a plan to cut aid budget.
“One of the headline messages is that funding not only puts that progress at risk, but we can make a change at the back,” Dr. Dr. Dr. Assistant Director General of Universal Health Coverage in WHO. Bruce Oilly said.
Aylward stated that the cuts have been cut globally on health systems “epidemics-like impact” and “more structural, deeply seated effects,” said the oilword.
The WHO stated that the deduction was already refunding important services for maternal, newborn and child health in many countries, reducing the number of employees, closing the facilities and interrupting supply chains for supply chains including treatment for bleeding and pre-eclampsia.
The United Nations said that cuts in other areas such as malaria and HIV treatment will also affect maternal existence.
The report said that things were coming back in some countries before the US leadership cut aid, and the progress has slowed down globally since 2016.
In 2023, despite the recent progress, a woman still died in almost every two minutes – in a total of 260,000 that year – from the complications that were mainly stopped and treatable, the couple.
The situation was particularly bad in countries affected by conflict or natural disasters, although America is one of the only four countries, which has seen a significant increase in its maternal mortality since 2000 with Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Jamaica since 2000.
The Covid-19 epidemic also had an impact, the report states: more than 40,000 women died in 2021 due to pregnancy or delivery, causing the total deaths of that year to 322,000.
“While this report shows Glimers of Asha, the data also reveals how dangerous pregnancy is still in the world today-despite the fact that solutions exist,” said the Director General Tedros Adnom Gebrees.
