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Women's Health
Agencies pledge support to new strategy to cut maternal deaths in the Americas
March 15th, 2004
Eight international agencies pledged their support in February 2004 to a new strategy designed to prevent deaths of women from pregnancy and childbirth complications, a number that reaches 23,000 in Latin America and the Caribbean each year. Nearly all of these deaths can be prevented with adequate care, the groups say. "Just one maternal death in one year is a tragic event; 23,000 maternal deaths is shameful. The vast majority of women who die in Latin America and the Caribbean die from causes that are preventable and that are routinely prevented in developed countries," said Mirta Roses, director of the Pan American Health Organization, which is...
Source: OBGYN & Reproduction Week (2004-03-15)
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