Topic: 2025 – Maternal Mortality
Country: Algeria
Delegate Name: Kaitlyn Konyndyk
World Health Organization
Maternal Mortality
Algeria
Kaitlyn Konyndyk
Forest Hills Northern High School
Serious dangers to the health and wellbeing of mothers and their children have always been present. Though, countries all around have begun to work on reducing those risks. Much of that work has been done with the progression of women’s rights. An important part of reducing those dangers is in pre and post natal care. Difficulties in doing that lie in many areas, but some key areas are limited access to care, income disparities, and geographic location. According to the UN, a majority of pregnancy and birth complications that led to death are preventable.
Throughout its past, Algeria has struggled to combat maternal mortality. Algeria views maternal healthcare as a fundamental right and a core part of the healthcare system because of its strong stance on the right to maternal care and its commitment to decreasing maternal mortality. The government in Algeria has integrated reproductive health and family planning into primary health care. Algeria believes that reducing maternal mortality requires strong public health systems, trained personnel, and special attention to the needs of women in rural and disadvantaged communities—especially because those women usually have limited access to care. Algeria believes that every woman should be able to give birth safely, for free, and in a decent clinic or hospital with trained staff.
In the past, Algeria has generally supported resolutions that emphasize state responsibility to invest in public systems, cooperate with UN agencies, and respect nations’ cultural and legal frameworks on given issues. Algeria has made a lot of progress in decreasing maternal mortality rates and improving pregnancy healthcare, but its rates are still higher that what is typical in high-income states, so they still have areas to improve in, meaning they require specific aid instead of generalized basic care.
In order to address this issue, Algeria argues that existing commitments to improving material health must be implemented more fully through increased funding for maternal and newborn health and protection of sexual and reproductive health services. Algeria wants to focus on ensuring skilled care is available, safe postnatal follow-ups, safe and legal abortions as well as post abortion care where national law allows. Algeria proposes increasing WHO technical and financial assistance to train midwives and obstetric teams and prioritizing investments in rural and peri‑urban facilities to better rural access to quality care.
