Global & Disaster Medicine

More than 303,500 women – 99 percent of them in developing countries – died during childbirth in 2015, according to the World Health Organization. In addition, some 2.7 million babies died in their first month, mainly from complications during pregnancy or childbirth.

Maternal-Infant Mortality

“……Hemorrhages, high blood pressure and infections accounted for three-fourths of maternal deaths.….”


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