UNICEF: "Progress for Children" report on maternal mortality

NEW YORK, USA, 19 September 2008 A report released by UNICEF today reveals a shocking discrepancy between the toll that pregnancy and childbirth takes on women in the developing world compared with those in industrialized nations.

Progress for Children: A Report Card on Maternal Mortality shows that more than half a million women die unnecessarily every year due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth and 99 per cent of those deaths occur in developing countries.

The worst regions in which to give birth are sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, which together account for 84 per cent of maternal deaths. The worst country in the world for maternal mortality is Niger, where the risk of death is estimated at one in seven.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/childsurvival/index_45681.html

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