ASEAN meet pushes strategies for maternal health

Delegates and health experts from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries outlined several strategies borne out of a two-day meeting in Manila last October for improving the health of mothers in the region.

The recommendations touched on financing, governance, regulations, service delivery, monitoring systems and the role of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) in promoting the human rights of women and children.

“Although most ASEAN countries have shown a significant decline in the maternal mortality rate since 1990, a significant gap still exists – both globally and regionally, between those that have achieved a significant decline in the maternal mortality rate and those doing so. There is a need therefore to develop strategies on how to reduce this gap and enhance the quality of maternal health in the region,” said Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for International Economic Relations Laura del Rosario, according to a news release of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

She added this concern is not only complex and multi-dimensional but also personal “because it is about the well-being of any of the important people in our life: a mother, a sister, a friend, a relative, or a wife.”

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