maternal deaths

Skilled birth attendants provide essential care during delivery, leading to a reduction of both maternal deaths and stillbirths.

Maternal deaths and pregnancy-related conditions cannot be eliminated without the empowerment of women.

If Somali women had half as many pregnancies (they now average six births), there would be only half as many maternal deaths.

Numbers of maternal deaths will not fall until more pregnant women have access to skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care.

Yet, for much of the decade, the number of maternal deaths stayed stubbornly high.

Stronger health systems, girls' education among factors that contribute to fewer maternal deaths, lower birth rates.

It is estimated that satisfying the unmet need for family planning alone could cut the number of maternal deaths by almost a third.

Most maternal deaths are avoidable, as the health-care solutions to prevent or manage complications are well known.

That rule badly hampered family planning groups working abroad to prevent infant and maternal deaths before President Obama lifted it.

The Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2000 aim to decrease child and maternal deaths worldwide by 2015.

They say the progress is a result of greater efforts to reduce maternal deaths.

Worldwide, young child and maternal deaths are now at their lowest levels in decades.

By improving the access to hospitals after the Second World War, maternal deaths were reduced to the current low levels.

Typically, the hospital averaged five or six maternal deaths per month.

Stroke is a recognised complication of pregnancy, contributing to more than 12% of all maternal deaths.

The majority of maternal deaths occur in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa .

The researchers say maternal deaths rates have also increased in some wealthy countries.

The day the government decides it doesn't want maternal deaths, we will have no more mothers dying.

Half of all maternal deaths in Botswana and South Africa are due to HIV.

H. I. V. has slowed the progress in reducing maternal deaths.

More than 20 percent of maternal deaths are traced to malnutrition.

To avoid maternal deaths, it is also vital to prevent unwanted and too-early pregnancies.

More progress must be made in reducing maternal deaths.

Research models using South African data estimate that about 50 000 maternal deaths were associated with HIV in 2008.

Postpartum bleeding results in 132 000 maternal deaths every year.

Since 1990, maternal deaths worldwide have dropped by 34%.

WHO is committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal deaths by three-quarters.

The global maternal mortality ratio is 400 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births versus 430 in 1990.

There are 509 maternal deaths per 100, 000 births in the south -- the highest rate in the world.

Almost all maternal deaths (99%) in 2008 occurred in developing countries.

Maternal deaths fell from 546, 000 in 1990 to 358, 000 in 2008.

Results Most maternal deaths occurred over 30 years old. They most frequently happened during the peri-natal period (87. 0%).