Blog:Healthy Lives

UNFPA: Global Maternal Mortality Cut in Half, Sub-Saharan Africa Lags Behind MDGs

Global maternal mortality has been halved over the past two decades says a new UNFPA report, “Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010.” That is the good news. The bad news is that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa will miss the target of reducing maternal mortality by 75% from 1990 ...
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The Story of Mariam Sangare

The Story of Mariam Sangare

Mariam Sangare, a 34-year-old from Mali, has already had 13 pregnancies, but only nine of her children have survived. She and her husband can’t afford to send any of their children to school, so after they had their last child, they decided to use family planning to prevent them from having more children. Mariam is among the 31% of married Malian woman who want to either space or limit their births but are unable to do so.
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