1. HEALTHCARE
   

2. Women lack power in the private sphere regarding decisions about sex, as well as in the public realm of healthcare policy. There have been remarkable improvements in health technology in recent years but women in developing countries have not benefitted from the advancements
   

• Discrimination against women often begins at birth with high rates of  female infanticide and neglect, including malnutrition and failure to        

   address illness in young girls

1. • Violence against women is a major public health challenge.
   

2. • Sexually transmitted diseases afflict five times as many women as men.
   

3. • Abortions are one of the highest causes of maternal mortality.
   

4. • Every minute of every day a woman dies from a preventable cause of pregnancy. (Women’s Health Around the World: Ct. Public Broadcasting.
   

5. • The number of maternal deaths each year –550,000—has remained constant  for more than a decade. 
   

6. • Unsafe abortions account for 13% of these deaths.  Also high rates of  anemia, malnutrition, mental illness.
   

           • Half a million women die each year from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. That's one woman every       

             minute of every day, and these deaths disproportionately afflict the most vulnerable  women and children in the poorest countries

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