Pregnancy

Study Data from Institute of Child Health Update Knowledge of Pregnancy

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 22nd, 2012

2012 MAR 22 -- According to the authors of a study from London, United Kingdom, "The fifth Millennium Development Goal target for 90% of births in low and middle income countries to have a skilled birth attendant (SBA) by 2015 will not be met. In response to this, policy has focused on increasing SBA access."

"However, reducing maternal mortality also requires policies to prevent deaths among women giving birth unattended. We aimed to generate estimates of the absolute number of non SBA births between 2011 and 2015 in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, given optimistic assumptions of future trends in SBA attendance. These estimates could be used by decision...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2012-03-22)

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