Report

Progress for Children (No. 7)

A Report Card on Maternal Mortality.

A mother and child, outside their tent, belong to a nomadic community who constantly move in search of greener pastures for their cattle in the village of Dar-e-Buzgala in Afghanistan.
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Highlights

Millennium Development Goal 5 is to improve maternal health, and its bold target is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Still, each year more than half a million women die from pregnancy-related causes that are avoidable. At the present rate of progress, the world will fall well short of the MDG 5 target. This report details progress in maternal health and highlights areas where improvements are needed.


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UNICEF
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English
ISBN
978-92-806-4315-2

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