really tough for coming 7 billions

Provide Emergency Obstetric Care

Most maternal deaths are avoidable yet every day 1000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. The knock-on effect is huge. For example, infants whose mothers die are more likely to die than infants whose mothers survive.

When something goes badly wrong, women need emergency obstetric care in proper health facilities. All five of the major causes of maternal deaths – excessive bleeding, sepsis, unsafe abortion, hypertensive disorders and obstructed labour – can be treated there. Trained staff who can administer blood transfusions can be life-savers: excessive bleeding after birth can kill a woman in less than two hours. (Source: Reuters)

can we feed 7 billions

 

Financial Education for Schoolkids

by Bettina Fachinger

                     Boys use their face to move a coin from their forehead into their mouth while participating in a game. Financial education can prevent children from accumulating debt (Source: Reuters)

With the initiative MyFinanceCoach, Allianz volunteers are teaching German children about money matters. Barbara Roder and volunteer Ulrich Trauner explain the concept and why

Celebrating the Educated Century

by Wolfgang Lutz

         
Nigerian pupils work on computers at the LEA primary school in Abuja. The school is a pilot site for the "One laptop per child" project. (Source: Reuters)

An optimist about the coming century, Wolfgang Lutz sees hope in the population numbers and the untold story they contain: greater investment than ever in our store of human capital.

Climate Patterns Cause Drought and War

by Michael Grimm

                
Bullets instead of food: A child holds bullets picked from the ground, in Rounyn, a village located about 15 km north of Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur. (Source: Reuters)

While aid agencies struggle to feed millions of hungry people in East Africa, two new studies have unearthed disturbing new evidence linking climate change not just to drought but also to civil war.

Care for Mothers during Pregnancy

                     

A pregnant woman receives an ultrasound scan in Arizona. Prenatal care checks the health of the baby, teaches mothers about danger signs during pregnancy, provides special nutritional advice, and can identify conditions like anemia that can put the mother and her unborn baby at risk. Good prenatal care and voluntary testing and counseling can also minimize the risk of HIV transmission from HIV-positive parents to their unborn children.

Pregnant women should be visited by health professionals at least four times before birth, say the WHO and UNICEF, but less than 50 percent of women during the 2003-2008 period received four visits. (Source: Reuters

Provide Reproductive Health Education

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  Provide Reproductive Health Education

  Reproductive health education and services, especially sex and family planning education for young people, is critical to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies and sexual abuse. Adolescents should be warned about unprotected sex, sexual coercion, infections, and unsafe abortions.

  
  

  From an early age girls should be empowered to delay marriage and pregnancy until they are physically and emotionally mature, while boys and men need to be encouraged to be sexually responsible and treat women as equal partners. (Source: Reuters)

Risks of Sex & Parenthood

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  Pregnant women with their bellies painted take part in "Healthy Maternity Week" in Lima, Peru. The biggest cause of death and illness among women of childbearing age is reproductive ill-health. Problems with pregnancy, childbirth, sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS account for 20 percent of the global burden of female ill-health, says the WHO. For men the figure is 14 percent.
  
  In a world of 7 billion people, with many populations growing rapidly, this is a critical healthcare issue and a key demographic risk. “Protecting reproductive health and rights is fundamental to our collective future and sustainable development,” said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA Executive Director, in a statement on World Population Day 2011. (Source: Reuters)