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Article: `Safe Motherhood' Drive Launched in Africa
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- The Washington Post
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- February 11, 1987
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World Bank President Barber Conable launched a worldwide "safe
motherhood" campaign today that he said by the turn of the century
will reduce by half the estimated 500,000 women who die each year in
pregnancy or childbirth.
Conable's speech at a bank-funded international conference here
marks a significant shift in the public profile of the World Bank,
the largest and most influential lending institution in the
developing world.
In the past, the bank's focus has been on lending for large
projects, such as irrigation schemes or road construction, and
recently on so-called "structural adjustment" loans aimed at
encouraging free-market economic reform.
Conable, a former New York congressman ...