Maternal and Child Health programme – Costing

This document presents the detailed costing that underpins the spending review summarised below.

South Africa is not meeting the Millennium Development Goal’s target for reducing maternal mortality An important target included in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs) was to reduce by 75% the global maternal mortality ratio by 2015. Statistics on the achievement of the MDGs show that by 2015 the global maternal mortality ratio had fallen by nearly half which comes short of the 75% target set by the United Nations. Current statistics for most developing countries show that maternal mortality is still on the rise. In South Africa in particular, the maternal mortality ratio is currently 112.6 deaths per 100,000 live births.