While developing countries are lowering their maternal mortality rates, the United States is backsliding.
Infant and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world, life-expectancy among the lowest.
Moreover, in the ARMM, high infant and maternal mortality rates have also been reported.
Final maternal mortality and morbidity data for 2010 are not yet available but the trend is clear.
The United Nations Population Fund reports that South Sudan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world.
Millennium Development Goal No. 5, which calls on nations to reduce maternal mortality by three-fourths between 1990 and 2015.
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This includes virtual parity between boys and girls in primary education and significant drops in child and maternal mortality.
Conditions and maternal mortality have improved in Afghanistan over the last 10 years, but not enough to save Roya.
While we've made significant strides in reducing child and maternal mortality rates since the 1970s, there are still many lives to save.
Nine out of ten babies are delivered at home without medical attention, leading to the world's second-highest maternal mortality rate (after Sierra Leone).
She works with young girls to protect them from early marriage, abuse and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
While China had a head start opening its economy roughly a decade earlier than India did it outranks India in measures including poverty and maternal mortality.
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We focused on the most glaring challenges women still face: the lack of economic empowerment, equal rights, violence against women and maternal mortality.
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As a consequence of not getting prenatal medical care she lost her life to maternal mortality in the hands of a traditional birth attendant.
The U.S.-led resolution, the cornerstone of our work at the 54th session, calls for the elimination of maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women.
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According to the World Health Organization, maternal mortality in Nigeria is 630 per 100, 000, more than 20 times as high as in Europe or the United States.
Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
In the village of Pitala, not far from the capital Lilongwe, maternal mortality rates have fallen to zero, according to anecdotal evidence given to the local UN agency.
Fully immunized over 100, 000 children, decreased deaths from pneumonia in children by 50%, and, among others, have impacted maternal mortality, early pregnancy and diarrhea deaths in children with our programs.
By 2010 Morocco had decreased its maternal mortality ratio by over 60 percent since 1990, according to the Ministry of Health, with much of that drop in recent years.
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Gates and 100 other powerful women from business, politics and non-profit organizations also attended a dinner at the elegant Hotel Schatzalp on Friday evening to discuss ways to reduce maternal mortality.
We can end child and maternal mortality in our generation - by using tried and tested interventions to stop mothers and babies being lost from what should be simple preventable causes.
Hafsat runs a conditional cash transfer project for the state, where poor pregnant women are encouraged to use available healthcare facilities for safer pregnancies in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates.
The report was produced in 2012 and was the first of its kind for the state, which also had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country between 2003-2007.
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After I returned to the UK I found that even though maternal mortality is one of the Millennium Development Goal targets, there was no discussion about it taking place at the upcoming G8 summits.
Because of illiteracy, women face major socioeconomic challenges including high risks with regard to reproductive health with reports suggesting that the maternal mortality rate in the country is among the highest in the world.
It would also accelerate progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, which call for a two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality, a three-quarters reduction in maternal mortality, and universal access to reproductive health services.
So while the HPV vaccine by itself is probably far too expensive to justify, if it's coupled with a larger agenda, laying the groundwork for decreasing maternal mortality and improving child health by reaching these girls before they become mothers, then perhaps we have a real breakthrough.
States where poverty exceeded 18 percent, the immigrant population exceeded 15 percent and the C-section rate exceeded 33 percent had 77 percent, 33 percent and 21 percent higher risks of maternal mortality, respectively, a 2007 report by Gopal K. Singh of the Health Resources and Services Administration indicated.
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