There was a great feature in the Washington Post this weekend all about maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. Unfortunately, Sierra Leone has an extremely high maternal mortality rate — 1 in 8 women die during childbirth. The Post’s feature includes articles on women dying during childbirth, stillborn births, and multimedia photo galleries and a video from the [...]
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October 6, 2008
Why is Africa Plagued with Maternal Mortality?
There’s a great blog post on RH Reality Check today about maternal mortality in Africa: On Maternal Mortality, Why Africa Falls So Far Behind. In the post, Edna Adan Ismail lists some of the reasons why African women die in pregnancy and childbirth: nutrition, education, high fertility, female genital mutilation, improper care at delivery and inadequate [...]
October 1, 2008
Op-Ed from Thoraya Obaid
The director of UNFPA says:
Everyday, over 1,400 women and adolescent girls die needlessly from giving birth and 40,000 more suffer injuries and disabilities that can last a lifetime. Complications of pregnancy are the leading cause of death for young women aged 15 to 19 in the developing world.
This is deplorable. It is [...]
September 19, 2008
“Death in Birth”
There’s a moving article in this week’s TIME magazine about maternal mortality around the world. Vivienne Walt writes:
In a hospital ward in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Fatmata Conteh, 26, lay on a bed, having just given birth to her second child. She had started bleeding from a tear in her cervix, [...]
