We lose many mothers on birth and genocide. We have the responsibility to act on both Jacquena Ardinne

IT usually when my daughter did not sleep that the conversation started. I would have sent my friend wondering loudly if I was going through all day without making some blatant mistakes. You are the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Only the second woman in the world who has a child while leading a country, and some days were difficult.

However, there was one response, a simple text message from my friend, in the depths of the trenches from providing care, would prevent me in my paths: “Women give birth during the war.”

I knew what she was. Five simple words aimed at reminding me that every day, women challenge difficulties – survival from difficult things, all while they are mothers and destinations. If they can continue, they can. But this was not the effect of these words. Instead, I thought indefinitely from women who are born through the risks of war.

We live in a world with which humanitarian crises are afflicted. famine. Civil conflict. The facts are often transmitted on the ground brilliantly. A ton of food was delivered or not. Aid financing has been announced or seized. Land gained or lost. The bombs decreased. Sustainable losses.

Nothing tells us a simple fact. Despite everything that does not ignore these serious humanitarian crises, life continues, in the most extreme conditions. Children still need to feed. People are still saddened by losing their loved ones, while trying to find a safe place to sleep. Health conditions need treatment. Women still give birth – and many of them do not survive.

Globally, the loss of a mother’s life resulting from birth It is the most common due to postpartum bleeding (PPH). The World Health Organization estimates that 14 million women annually affectedBut death is largely preventable. In fact, in high -income countries, the death of PPH was almost eliminated. But globally, 70,000 women are still dying every year. This is the death of one PPH every 7.5 minutes. More than half of these deaths are present in the 25 countries with current appeals for humanitarian assistance.

These women in South Sudan who have suffered from civil turmoil for decades, and are now residing in one of the most dangerous places to become a mother. Mothers mortality rate is more than 1200 per 100,000 live births.

These are thousands of newborn children in Burkina Faso, where they have hundreds of health facilities closed With the deterioration of the security situation, who will grow without mothers, and all the social and economic scars that bring it.

There is no doubt that these environments are difficult to do. This is one of the reasons for the lack of progress in ending these preventive deaths. But they continue to – prevent it.

Researchers from the World Health Organization and the University of Birmingham recently Published A study proposed a new solution, known as E-Motive, can reduce the deaths of PPH.

The study, which included more than 200,000 women in four countries, found that measuring blood loss using a simple-cost assembly called “bending” and assembling the evidence installed on evidence-instead of providing them successively-led to significant improvements to women.

These low -cost solutions can be delivered more broadly. But the focus was on providing them in stable environments, rather than the areas of conflict and crises they needed urgently.

For this reason, the International Salvation Committee launches a new global partnership entitled The safest births in crises. This consortium is combined with experienced in this field, such as International Medical Legionthe United Nations Population Fund and Jhpiego To provide these life saving solutions to prevent and treat, PPH to the most vulnerable women in the world.

While the safest birth in crises will start in countries such as South Sudan and Burkina Faso, they will also explore how these solutions are adapted to countries like Papua New Guinea, which are increasingly increasing in harsh air events within the Pacific region. With future resources, the Union hopes to expand the scope of access to life saving interventions for both mothers and infants in additional places affected by crises, such as those in the Middle East.

Matariki Fund for Women Join this initiative To fill the critical financing gap, and to save thousands of women lose their lives every year in the birth of the child, by saving $ 4 million to the federation.

But no one should pretend this is enough. Even the child who is safely born in these circumstances is still born in a crisis.

In the coming weeks, leaders will He met for the United Nations General Assembly. As they do, we must continue to invite those who have authority to respond to these humanitarian crises, from the conflict in Ukraine to natural disasters caused by the climate crisis. We must start with Gaza. There is a way to stop the genocide that is still happening daily in front of us: You must recognize more countries in the Palestinian state; Any cooperation that facilitates military action must end; Humanitarian aid needs to reach the urgent trapped and starvation; Medical care must be available for wounded, malnutrition, and for pregnant and new mothers.

We may live in a world suffering from humanitarian crises, but we must resist ignoring the numbers. Because yes, women give birth during war, and they die. But they should not. Not in the midst of birth, nor in the fire of conflict. Sometimes policy and leadership should be simple like that.

• Jacquena Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand

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