Another example of an approach delivered under the BEmONC package is “kangaroo mother care,” which promotes skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby, a simple act that could halve mortality in premature children.
Family planning is an important part of the package because an estimated 217 million women who want to avoid pregnancy still don’t have access to safe and effective family planning methods. If 90 per cent of women in the 55 hardest-hit countries had access to such services, fewer would become pregnant, and 87,000 fewer mothers would die each year.Article contentThe annual financial cost is $2.1 billion, with women’s additional time costs valued at $1.6 billion.
Add up all the returns to society and it turns out the annual cost of $3.7 billion will deliver benefits in terms of fewer deaths and higher economic growth worth $322 billion every year.Article content