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Article: Safe motherhood - from advocacy to action.
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- Finance & Development
- Article date:
- December 1, 1991
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Women's health is a critical factor in development. Some early progress, but the major challenge stiff lies ahead
For a fuller discussion, see The Safe Motherhood Initiative, by Barbara Herz and Anthony R. Measham, World Bank Discussion Paper No. 9, May 198Z as well as Maternal Health and Development, " by Herz and Measham, in Finance & Development, June 1987.
Consider the magnitude of these statistics. Every minute of every day a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. This adds up to half a million deaths every year, with 99 percent of these taking place in the developing world. In addition, countless more women suffer from ...