1. How does gender affect wellbeing?

2. Maternal mortality video - 1:53
Learn on resources 11.2
maternal mortality - the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy.

3. Is pregnancy and giving birth life threatening?
Not usually in Australia but every day around the world, approximately 800 women die from complications in relation to pregnancy and childbirth
Most are preventable, e.g.:
Severe bleeding
Infections
Complications from unsafe abortions
86% of maternal deaths are is Sub Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.
2 countries account for 1/3 of total global maternal deaths: Nigeria (19%) and India (15 percent).

5. Sustainable/Millenium development goals
In 2001, the UN member states formally adopted the United Nations Millennium Development Declaration and its eight goals, which set out targets aimed at improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries by 2015.

7. The three overarching themes are: 1. to end poverty, 2
The three overarching themes are: 1. to end poverty, 2. protect the planet and 3. ensure prosperity for everyone over the next 15 years. Each of the 17 goals has a number of targets to be met. The SDGs apply to all countries, which was also the intention of the MDGs; however, the MDGs became targets for poor countries to achieve with finance from wealthier countries. The SDGs apply to all countries.
These were changed in 2015 to the sustainable development goals and increased in number to 17

8. MDG goal 5 target 1990-2015 Reduce by ¾ the maternal mortality rate.
Unsuccessful.
Fell by 45%. Countries in Southern Africa especially a problem where AIDS had a major impact.
SDG target - Maternal mortality rate below 70 per 100,000 by 2030.
Countries such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Timor Leste have achieved this in the past 15 yrs.
MORE THAN 220NMILLION WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CANNOT ACCESS CONTRACEPTION, RESULTING IN 80 MILLION UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES…

9. Question 3 data – where are the anomalies?

10. Read chapter 11.2 and answer questions
1-6 in your binder book
Let me know when you get to question 4 and we will play the “Women’s Health” video.
Using the MDG goals on slide 6, choose what you believe are the two most significant achievements from and explain why.
“How difficult is it to get a drink of water?” GSA task as lead in to Water.