<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanton, Mary Ellen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kwast, Barbara E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shaver, Theresa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McCallon, Betsy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Koblinsky, Marge</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Beyond the Safe Motherhood Initiative: Accelerated Action Urgently Needed to End Preventable Maternal Mortality</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Health: Science and Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018-10-03 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">408-412</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00100</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Many countries will need to double, or more than double, their current annual rate of reduction of maternal mortality to ensure sufficient progress toward national targets and the global Sustainable Development Goals. Dedication to the principles and actions of quality, equity, dignity, social justice, and human rights are key.Following the 30th anniversary of the launch of the global Safe Motherhood Initiative, the world now looks ahead to renewing its visionary goal of ending preventable maternal mortality. Progress toward that aspiration is often equated with the 44% reduction in global maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015.1 Yet this reduction was still far from achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 of reducing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, and it is even farther from achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, which aims to attain a global MMR of less than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030.Today there are more than 300,000 maternal deaths each year worldwide.1 More than 200 million women wish to avoid, delay, or end childbearing but are not using contraception.2 The face of these numbers is increasingly an adolescent girl—complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death of 15 to 19-year-old girls globally.3While facility delivery is rapidly increasing, even now more than 30 million women deliver yearly without the care of a skilled birth attendant.4 Many, including those who do deliver in hospitals, receive substandard care in inadequate facilities and face disrespect and abuse from exhausted health care workers who are often disrespected themselves. Most significant of all is the unconscionable disparity between rich and poor nations—the lifetime risk of maternal death is more than 100 times greater in sub-Saharan Africa than in Europe. Furthermore, within nations there are inequities between …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>