Ann Starrs and Dr. Susheela Singh of the Guttmacher Institute will present the report Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health, which documents the need for, costs and resulting benefits of investing in a range of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in 149 developing countries.
Background
The Guttmacher Institute has released Adding It Up reports every five years since 2004. The most recent report, released in December 2014, documents a large unmet need for contraceptive services, antenatal care, facility-based delivery, selected services for pregnant women living with HIV, safe abortion and post-abortion care (PAC), and sexually transmitted infections (STI) care, among women in the developing world, with poor women bearing the brunt of the resulting maternal and newborn deaths and disability. The report demonstrates that if all women who want to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptives, and if all pregnant women and their newborns received care at the standards recommended by WHO, the benefits would be dramatic: unintended pregnancies would drop by 70 percent and maternal and newborn deaths would drop by 67 percent and 77 percent respectively.
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