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Article: Nairobi Safe Motherhood Conference reviews concerns, activities to help pregnant women and mothers.
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- UN Chronicle
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- May 1, 1987
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Nairobi Safe Motherhood Conference reviews concerns, activities to help pregnant women and mothers
EACH year about 500,000women die from causes related to childbearing. Sixty per cent of those deaths occur in South Asia and 30 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa. Maternal mortality is the leading cause of death among young women in many developing countries, and illness and death from childbearing afflict poor women and their families disproportionately.
Concern over maternal health ledthe World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) to sponsor a Conference on Safe Motherhood in Nairobi, Kenya, ...