Commitment title:

Reducing maternal mortality rates from 58 per 100 thousand births to below 34 per 100,000 thousand births.

Commitment description:

by 2030,   despite the massive damage to health facilities and high death rates, especially maternal and child mortality.the government is working  to ensure a long healthy life: All citizens have access to and obtain reliable and integrated health services. The State creates the appropriate conditions that allow everyone to enjoy the highest possible level of health.

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    The government is working to ensure a long healthy life: All citizens have access to and obtain reliable and integrated health services. The State creates the appropriate conditions that allow everyone to enjoy the highest possible level of health.
Commitment to be actioned in: Syrian Arab Republic
Submitted from: Syrian Arab Republic
Submitted by
Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour - Syrian Arab Republic
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(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.