FAST FACT: Childbirth Deaths Exceed 2 Million Worldwide
December 2, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
A study released this fall reported some chilling trends:
- More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS
- About 42 percent of the world's 536,000 maternal deaths occur during childbirth
The research was led by the Save the Children Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University.
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