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Sustainable Development Goals is a post Millennium Development Goal agenda by experts in the world which will be implemented within the next 15 years until 2030.It has seventeen goals and 169 targets as a whole where SDG 3 deal with ensuring health lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. Sustainable Development Goal3 has nine targets and four sub targets related with different areas of health. One of the targets target 3.1 is a target to achieve a reduction of global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births .Maternal death is defined as "The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes. Health in Ethiopia has improved from the last decades to then through the major achievement in areas of health service delivery by making health system accessible, affordable and acceptable at different level for the beneficiaries and put different efforts to provide quality health services care. The improvement in infrastructure, resource mobilization and leadership and governance in health sector and in the country as a whole have a key contribution for the achievements. Maternal health is one of the area where an attention given and different efforts and initiatives were being implemented with strong political will and commitment ==Maternal health situation in Ethiopia== Following the MDGs target Ethiopia developed Health Sector Development Program (HSDP I,II,II,and IV and performance monitoring and evaluation of the health services. The primary focus of HSDP is improving the provision of primary health care services to mothers and children and prevention and control of communicable diseases in order to reach at the targeted outcome.Maternal and child health is the major area and target where different efforts and contributions have been made from the beginning of HSDP I.〔 According to Health Sector Development Plan IV (HSDP IV) which was being implemented from 2012 to 2015 performance evaluation of 2013/14 indicated progress in achievement of family planning service coverage, antenatal care service coverage, institutional deliveryand postnatal service coverage. Furthermore, access to emergency obstetric care in the reduction of maternal death during pregnancy and child birth through provision of Basic and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care are the areas where especial attention has been given and improvements has been observed.〔〔 Number of health centres and hospitals providing Basic Emergency Obstetric Care (BEmOC) and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmOBC) are increasing overtime (Figure 1). There are 25 functional regional blood banks with 30 satellite mobile team who are collecting the blood from the communities on daily base. The blood banks are located within 150 –200 km radius of their catchment are where both private and public health facilities are able to get safe blood〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maternal health in Ethiopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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