Editorial

Every Women Count The World Health Report 2005 - Make Every Mother and Child Count, says that this year almost 11 million children under five years of age will die from causes that are largely preventable. Among them are 4 million babies who will not survive the first month of life. At the same time, more than half a million women will die in pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. The report says that reducing this toll in line with the Millennium Development Goals depends largely on every mother and every child having the right to access to health care from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood. All of those who chose to work on women health are aware of the significance of this WHO statement and our willingness is to see the effect of our efforts in every woman of the world and this enormous responsibility has been taken by journal Current Women's Health Reviews. Health equity of women at the highest level possible is the aim to achieve. An avoidable maternal death can not be admitted anymore and the best quality of life in every period for every woman needs to be reached. The present copy of the journal Current Women's Health Reviews is the second volume of the journal. I am happy that journal completes its one year successfully and all the issues of first volume comprise a variety of good articles with up-to-date information regarding every aspects of women's health. My aim as Editor-in-Chief is to provide scholarly publications that are useful to clinicians and obstetricians. This issue also shows a diversity of information with a good balance of contributions to women global health. Researchers from developing and developed countries can provide contributions to attain journal's aim and contribute to achieve the best equalitarian women global health. The issue starts with an article by Olâh gives an update of the surgical management of vesico vaginal fistulae. Up to 80,000 women each year develop fistulae. Between 500,000 and one million women are currently living with fistulae. Many of these women become social outcasts turned out of homes and rejected by their husbands and families. Regardless that every woman in labour should have access to an appropriate control of labour to prevent the fistulae, surgical repair will relief these women and allow their family and social reinsertion. Two articles of this issue referred to contraception, a need of women to avoid grand multiparity and to attain reproductive health. According to WHO, "reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this last condition are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other methods of their choice for regulation of fertility which are not against the law, and the right of access to appropriate health-care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant. In line with the above definition of reproductive health, reproductive health care is defined as the constellation of methods, techniques and services that contribute to reproductive health and well-being by preventing and solving reproductive health problems. It also includes sexual health, the purpose of which is the enhancement of life and personal relations, and not merely counselling and care related to reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases" one is an illustrative study performed in India by Kumar in article 2, shows the lack of knowledge and access to contraception of these women particularly in rural areas and that surgical sterilization is an accepted option for these women. There is a need of studies like this, looking for women expectations in order to design methods and approaches based on their culture and expectations. Another study about emergency contraception by Misro shows the amazing lack of knowledge and availability of this method in developing countries in article 4. The maternal and perinatal consequences of grand multiparity, and the increased risk of antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage in women is the most important issue which results in Perinatal mortality. This analytical study is carried out by Yves in article 3. Hemoglobinopathies in Pregnancy is a sensitive theme which is covered in an article 5 by Hassell and have discussed sickle..........