PCIJ WebAlert #19.2008
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May 29, 2008, 7:17:40 AM5/29/08
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29.May.2008
---------------[ i Report Feature )------
2015 OR BUST?
Waterless World
by Ed General
TRY not to go through one day without drinking water and you’ll
understand why there are people who dig up even their own backyards in
a vain attempt to find water. That’s what residents in a remote island
down south had been reduced to doing for years — until workers from a
multisectoral program landed on their shores and agreed to build them
a solar-powered water system. Now they’ve not only let go of their
picks and shovels, they are also feeling a lot healthier.
The United Nations Development Programme, in fact, says that
worldwide, some two million children die each year from unsafe
drinking water, and diarrhea is said to kill far more people annually
than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. And while the town mayor says
residents on the island had become used to the murky water their wells
wielded, many of them often fell ill anyway because of waterborne
diseases like cholera and diarrhea.
The most recent official statistics say that just a little more than
80 percent of households nationwide have “sustainable access to
improved water source.” In Sulu, the situation is more like nearly 70
percent of the population without access to potable water. The latest
piece in i Report’s MDG series shows the impact of such in a place
that is already impoverished. The dispatch, however, also chronicles
the improvements in the lives of the people of Kahikukuk island after
they finally get a clean water supply.
Read on at http://pcij.org
Post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2344
---------------[ The Daily PCIJ )------
VIDEOCAST
Birth pangs
by Isa Lorenzo
GIVING birth is no easy task. In fact, some say that it's the greatest
pain a woman will ever experience. Hence the truism that once a woman
gets pregnant, one foot is already in the grave.
What is true is that far too many women in the Philippines still die
from complications related to their pregnancies.
The MDG target on maternal health aims to reduce the maternal
mortality ratio (MMR) by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015. This
means a reduction to 52 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015.
Unfortunately, the United Nations's midterm report in 2007 identified
this goal as the least likely to be achieved for the Philippines.
In 1998, the country's MMR declined to 172 deaths, from 209 deaths in
1993. By 2006 however, the rate of decline had sharply diminished to
162.
Watch as one mother gives birth, and learn more about the state of
maternal health in the country.
View the video and post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2343
29.May.2008
---------------[ i Report Feature )------
2015 OR BUST?
Waterless World
by Ed General
TRY not to go through one day without drinking water and you’ll
understand why there are people who dig up even their own backyards in
a vain attempt to find water. That’s what residents in a remote island
down south had been reduced to doing for years — until workers from a
multisectoral program landed on their shores and agreed to build them
a solar-powered water system. Now they’ve not only let go of their
picks and shovels, they are also feeling a lot healthier.
The United Nations Development Programme, in fact, says that
worldwide, some two million children die each year from unsafe
drinking water, and diarrhea is said to kill far more people annually
than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. And while the town mayor says
residents on the island had become used to the murky water their wells
wielded, many of them often fell ill anyway because of waterborne
diseases like cholera and diarrhea.
The most recent official statistics say that just a little more than
80 percent of households nationwide have “sustainable access to
improved water source.” In Sulu, the situation is more like nearly 70
percent of the population without access to potable water. The latest
piece in i Report’s MDG series shows the impact of such in a place
that is already impoverished. The dispatch, however, also chronicles
the improvements in the lives of the people of Kahikukuk island after
they finally get a clean water supply.
Read on at http://pcij.org
Post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2344
---------------[ The Daily PCIJ )------
VIDEOCAST
Birth pangs
by Isa Lorenzo
GIVING birth is no easy task. In fact, some say that it's the greatest
pain a woman will ever experience. Hence the truism that once a woman
gets pregnant, one foot is already in the grave.
What is true is that far too many women in the Philippines still die
from complications related to their pregnancies.
The MDG target on maternal health aims to reduce the maternal
mortality ratio (MMR) by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015. This
means a reduction to 52 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015.
Unfortunately, the United Nations's midterm report in 2007 identified
this goal as the least likely to be achieved for the Philippines.
In 1998, the country's MMR declined to 172 deaths, from 209 deaths in
1993. By 2006 however, the rate of decline had sharply diminished to
162.
Watch as one mother gives birth, and learn more about the state of
maternal health in the country.
View the video and post your comments at http://pcij.org/blog/?p=2343
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