Women's health fuelling poverty

[acmejack]

Tackling female health would not only save millions of lives but reduce global poverty, experts say.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says 99% of maternal deaths are preventable yet every minute a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes.

This loss impacts not only on the family and society, but also on the economy, its latest report says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4331996.stm

[cally]

1. This is very important information

Reproductive choice is not just a women's issue but a society issue that affects the entire economy. I still rage inside knowing that fundies in this country are condemning women and children to death by spouting right to life lies about access to birth control.

Nominated!

[wildflower]

2. I agree wholeheartedly. Also from the article:

She said another big area of health affecting women was HIV/Aids.

Worldwide, young women aged 15-24 are 1.6 times as likely as young men to be HIV positive.

And there are other types of chronic illness and disability that are seen primarily in women as well.

Thank you for posting this.

wildflower

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and...

do something about those tribal patriarchal raiders. Bah!

Thanks for the article. Very good!

[porphyrian]

4. B...but then we'd actually have to research women's health...

That's simply preposterous! How can we possibly spend money on women's health when there are only a handful of medications available to treat erectile dysfunction in old men?! Why, we speculate that there's a bird flu virus just itching to mutate into a Global Pandemic Of Epic Proportion we should be worrying about, not this silly preventable-death-of-women-with-proper-healthcare business. What if a doctor had to see their dirty pillows?
</sarcasm>

[Ezlivin]

5. Don't use "fuel" in a sentence like that

Because the next thing you know, Bush and his cronies will start drilling women for the fuel.

:)

[cally]

6. afternoon kick

[Gloria]

7. Big report on this this AM on BBC World Service....one of the

interviewees said that if there was ONE THING that could help turn the tide, it would be consistent access to family planning....which or F*CKING Adminisration screws around with, denying it to countries which allow the word "abortion" to be spoken.....GAG RULE....SUCKS!!!!

And they want to do it to women here in the US, too!!! Somebody needs to make an ad about this....showing a poor woman from a third world country and then shows how it could happen here...morph a nice middle class woman into a destitute woman, sick and surrounded by kids...