[Viva] Fwd: ICW joins global call to action on International Maternal Health and Rights Day 2015

Fri Apr 10 15:07:31 PDT 2015

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Subject: ICW joins global call to action on International Maternal Health
and Rights Day 2015
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Health and Rights Day

Women living with HIV have the right to respectful, dignified maternal care!

This International Maternal Health and Rights Day ICW is joining the global
call to action to ensure respectful and dignified maternal care and human
rights for all women and particularly women living with HIV around the
world.

   - Every day, approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related
   to pregnancy and childbirth. 99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing
   countries.
   - Maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS are the two leading causes of death
   among women of reproductive age worldwide, and the two are unmistakably
   interconnected.
   - A disproportionate amount of maternal deaths are HIV-related. In
   sub-Saharan Africa, about a quarter of pregnancy related deaths are
   attributable to HIV—in some high prevalence areas, this number may be
   higher than 50 percent.
   - Globally, women living with HIV are 7 to 8 times more likely to die
   during pregnancy and the postpartum period than their HIV-negative peers.

Although improvements in health facilities and medical treatments have cut
global maternal mortality rates by almost half in the past twenty years,
maternal deaths for women living with HIV have not seen similar reductions.
Worryingly, maternal mortality rates during this period have in fact
increased in eight high HIV-prevalence countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

While interventions to prevent vertical (mother-to-child) transmission of
HIV have resulted in lower rates of transmission of HIV to infants,
expectant mothers with HIV often face intense stigma, discrimination and
abuse from health care providers. Women living with HIV around the world
report human rights violations in maternal health care settings, including
violations of confidentiality and the right to informed consent; refusal to
provide conditional access to services, including coerced and forced
sterilization, forced and coerced abortion; and stigma and discrimination
including physical and emotional abuse. This mistreatment deters women from
seeking and receiving the care they need. *In the context of maternal
health care stigma and discrimination can be a matter of life or death for
women living with HIV.*

*ICW demands that the new global agenda secures respectful and dignified
maternal care for women living with HIV:*

   1. Maternal health priorities must not only focus on the elimination of
   new HIV infections in children, but on keeping mothers alive.
   2. Improving maternal health and reducing maternal mortality for women
   living with HIV must use a rights-based approach and employ strong stigma
   reduction efforts along the continuum of reproductive and maternal health
   care.
   3. Increased research on the relationship between HIV infection and
   causes of maternal morbidity and mortality is essential.
   4. Women living with HIV must receive increased access to treatment,
   care, and support including antenatal and prevention of vertical
   transmission services and be able to make voluntary, fully informed,
   autonomous decisions about their bodies and health.
   5. Accountability mechanisms by and for women living with HIV must be
   developed to monitor maternal care programmes for rights violations,
   discrimination, and barriers to care.
   6. Women living with HIV must be meaningfully involved in the design,
   implementation, and evaluation of programmes and services.

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and other maternal health advocates on this International Day of Maternal
Health and Rights to demand a rights based approach to respectful and
dignified maternal health care and to ensure that women, and particularly
women living with HIV, are at the center of efforts to improve maternal
health outcomes.

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