the joint blog with Sarah Zeid of Jordan and Princess Dr. Flavia Bustreo, WHO If you describe your home in one word, what often ask respo...
the joint blog with Sarah Zeid of Jordan and Princess
Dr. Flavia Bustreo, WHO
If you describe your home in one word, what often ask respond with either "safe" or "safe". No matter where you live in the world, is home to the place where the human being, striving.
For the estimated 60 million displaced persons, refugees and asylum seekers worldwide, the house is in order. Humanitarian emergencies and conflict drove them from everything they know how comfortable and safe.
Most affected are the most vulnerable - women, young people and children.
Overall, women and children are 14 times more likely than men to die in a sudden catastrophe. For those who survive, not to stop life.
Women still have babies. Children should still young and still need access to education and health services to be vaccinated, including contraception.
But life is different. No house, and there are few, if any, health services.
A challenge for the health of women and girls
There are an estimated 26 million women and girls of childbearing age live in emergency situations that need to all health services.
The data of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 50 fragile states show that the risk of the estimated life of maternal mortality in these countries is 1 in 54, compared with 1 in 4,000 in developed countries. occur more than 60% of maternal deaths, 53% of children under five deaths and 45% of neonatal deaths, in fragile situations.
Crises in places, women and girls often lack access to basic health services such as family planning and prenatal care. Even if these services are available, women are often rejected for lack of legal documentation of immigration status, ethnic origin or family status, to name a few disadvantages.
In addition, high levels of sexual violence or sex in emergency situations, including rape, female genital mutilation, pregnancy and child marriages more women and girls forced victims of poor health, deprivation and neglect.
What we need to protect the health and human rights of women, children and adolescents in all crisis situations has to be ensured everywhere. While women and improved survival of children by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the Global Strategy for the year 2010, for all women of the UN Secretary-General, all children, more than 80% the country has not achieved the objectives of an ongoing conflict bear, natural disasters, or both.
Unfortunately, both efforts short of women and children's health in humanitarian emergencies.
We now know that the gaps
Last year, with the adoption of sustainable development goals (ODS), the countries pledged to ensure that no one left behind. Embedded and aligned with the ODS, the new global strategy for women, children and youth health aims more than survival. It converts the actions that offer women, children and young people are needed, so they need to grow and transform the societies in which we live.
To thrive, women and girls of childbearing age live in humanitarian emergencies need sexual and reproductive health. The first step is to ensure that all countries and humanitarian partners for emergencies have minimum initial service package for reproductive health in place. This package contains the clinical care for rape victims, makes condoms to prevent HIV transmission, and ensures the availability of trained midwives maternal and neonatal mortality to prevent, to name a few.
To make these services available to the global strategy also requires more healthcare workers and better data collection on women, children and health needs of young people in emergency situations. These same services are building blocks for the long-term health systems. The average distance, because of war and persecution is 17 years, so we have to ensure that all children and young people reach their full potential to achieve at this time.
Finally, the most important, the most flexible solutions from the beginning of financing emergencies. If that can access resources in an emergency low-income and middle-income countries do not, how can we expect them to finance a package of health services, including food, water, sanitation and hygiene?
If we are the ODS, we need to adapt our attention to sustainable development, including women, children and young people in humanitarian emergencies. This is our chance to make sure that nobody is left behind.
Everyone has the right to survive, grow and transform.
The next World Humanitarian Summit explores the challenges to meet our humanity, and it is a unique opportunity for the governments of this commitment to reaffirm. to be the agenda of humanity a reality for all women, all children, all young people worldwide.
