Act now to support the world's most marginalised people

Health Poverty Action has long been calling for a seemingly simple measure that could have a huge impact on the health of the communities we work alongside.

The collection of health data – broken down by ethnicity.

If governments were obliged to break down health data for ethnic groups, marginalised communities and their health needs could be identified. And resources diverted to meet them.

Indigenous and marginalised communities are often discriminated against and their health suffers as a direct consequence as they struggle to access health services.

For example, women from the indigenous Mayan population in Guatemala are three times more likely than their national counterparts to die from childbirth.

These communities are often invisible. Data – by ethnicity - would reveal their poor health in comparison with national averages. And governments would have to take action.

Take action today!

In the next few weeks the UK government is finalising its position ahead of a global poverty summit next year. Indigenous and marginalised communities must not remain invisible. Please send an email to Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, today.

Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development

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Please reaffirm DfID’s commitment to improving the health of the most marginalised communities in the world’s poorest countries by ensuring that health and poverty data is broken down by ethnicity.
In many places indigenous women face some of the worst poverty and health outcomes and are more likely to die in childbirth than the rest of the population.
If ethnicity is not specified in the future framework we risk missing a major opportunity to ensure that progress for some of the world’s most marginalised women is tracked.
Lack of data on ethnicity makes women and their communities invisible. It is a major barrier to accessing healthcare. And its importance cannot be underestimated.
Without this data marginalised communities will continue to find themselves discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity and women will continue to die unnecessarily in childbirth.
Please make sure a specific reference to the collection of data by ethnicity  is included in the future development framework.

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