That's what epidemiologist Jenny Cresswell of the World Health Organization said of death rate data in a new report she authored — 'equivalent to almost 800 deaths a day or a death every 2 minutes.'
A traditional birth attendant massages a pregnant woman before assisting in delivering her baby in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.A traditional birth attendant massages a pregnant woman before assisting in delivering her baby in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.There's been virtually no progress in reducing the number of women who die due to pregnancy or childbirth worldwide in recent years.
And it represents only about a 7% reduction since 2016 — when world leaders committed to a so-called"sustainable development goal" of slashing maternal mortality rates by more than a third by 2030. Many of these deaths are due to causes like severe bleeding, high blood pressure and pregnancy-related infections that could be prevented with access to basic health care and family planning. Yet the report also finds that worldwide about a third of women don't get even half of the recommended eight prenatal checkups.
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