New Maternal Mortality Numbers Show Progress is Being Made
On September 10th, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Bank released their new maternal mortality numbers in the report “Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008”. The number of women who are dying from childbirth and pregnancy related causes has fallen 34% from 546,000 women per year in 1990 to 358,000 per year in 2008. This is great news, but with 1,000 women dying every day there is still a lot of work to be done.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/maternal_mortality_20100915/en/index.html
http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/09/17/hope-for-maternal-health/
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