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maternal death
(redirected from Death in childbirth)

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maternal death,
the death of a woman during the childbearing cycle.


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Despite our promises Afghanistan is still one of the poorest countries in the world; Britain and the US have spent trillions of pounds, financially crippling our own countries; Women's lives are not improving in Afghanistan, death in childbirth is rising, fewer than a quarter of Afghan girls are in school, fewer than 10% of the population are able to write and we are just about to sanitise the barefaced, corrupt election.
UNFPA is co-sponsoring a major international conference on maternal mortality beginning in London on October 18, in part to remind the world that it signed up to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing death in childbirth by 75% by 2015.
The third edition was published together with the first edition and Andreini's pastoral play, Mirtilla, as a commemorative volume after her premature death in childbirth in 1604.
 
 
 
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