Burundi is committed to reducing the number of preventable maternal deaths from 334 to 150 per 100,000 live births
Commitment description:Burundi is committed to reducing the number of preventable maternal deaths from 334 to 150 per 100,000 live births through: • Training providers working within the network of 112 health care facilities in managing obstetric and neonatal emergencies in order to improve the quality of maternal care • Making at least seven life-saving medicines available to mothers in the 112 health facilities targeted for inclusion in the emergency obstetric and neonatal care network (from 37.7 per cent of facilities in 2017 to 100 per cent in 2030) • Recruiting midwives in at least 70 per cent of maternity units in the 112 health facilities within the EmONC network.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionLe Burundi s’engage à réduire les décès maternels évitables de 334 à 150 décès maternels pour 100,000 naissances vivantes.
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.
