Recommendations to improve maternal mortality among Rohingya women in Bangladeshi refugee camps

Despite current humanitarian efforts, The Rohingya in Bangladesh's refugee camps have among the highest maternal mortality worldwide. The authors review maternal mortality within Rohingya refugee populations in Bangladesh, citing the camp conditions and cultural norms that affect the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR). Next, the authors review current humanitarian efforts made by the UNFPA toward improving reproductive health. Finally, the authors recommend a three-pronged approach to reducing maternal mortality among the Rohingya in Bangladeshi refugee camps. We suggest using Maternity Waiting Homes, Mama Rickshaws, and Traditional Birth Attendants to improve maternal health. These solutions address the three-delays model and place ownership into the community. Ultimately, the authors address a much-needed gap in the literature addressing Rohingya maternal mortality

Environmental health · Political science · Refugee · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma

• Building Capacity in Crisis

  Open Access•Nada Alnaji, Bree Akesson et al.•International Journal of…•2026

  Incluir item

• Routledge Handbook of South Asian Criminology

  K Jaishankar•Routledge Handbook of South Asian…•2019

  Incluir item

• Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018

  Open Access•Ribka Amsalu, J Costello et al.•BMJ Global Health•2022

  Incluir item

• Assessing trauma care systems in low-income and middle-income countries

  Open Access•John Whitaker, Nollaig O'Donohoe et al.•BMJ Global Health•2021

  Incluir item

• Utility of the three-delays model and its potential for supporting a solution-based approach to accessing intrapartum care in low- and middle-income countries. A qualitative evidence synthesis

  Open Access•Valentina Actis Danna, Carol Bedwell et al.•Global Health Action•2020

  Incluir item

• Expanding Maternity Waiting Homes as an Approach to Improve Institutional Delivery in Southwest Ethiopia

  Open Access•Meaza Hailu, Fikru Tafese et al.•INQUIRY The Journal of Health…•2021

  Incluir item

• Responding to the health needs of women from migrant and refugee backgrounds—Models of maternity and postpartum care in high‐income countries

  Open Access•Helen Rogers, Helen J Rogers et al.•Health & Social Care in the…•2020

  Incluir item

• Conflict and Development

  Kayli Wayte, Kayli J Wayte et al.•Reproductive Health Matters•2008

  Incluir item

• Too far to walk

  Open Access•Sereen Thaddeu, Sereen Thaddeus et al.•Social Science & Medicine•1994

  Incluir item

• Conceptualising the prevention of adverse obstetric outcomes among immigrants using the 'three delays' framework in a high-income context

  Open Access•Pauline Binder, Sara Johnsdotter et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2012

  Incluir item

• The MOM Project

  Luke C Mullany, Catherine I Lee et al.•Reproductive Health Matters•2008

  Incluir item