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Estimating Number Of Births Without Skilled Birth Attendants In South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Noting that the "fifth Millennium Development Goal target for 90 percent of births in low- and middle-income countries to have a skilled birth attendant (SBA) by 2015 will not be met," researchers from University College London estimate "that there will be between 130 and 180 million non-SBA births in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa from 2011 to 2015 (90 percent of these in rural areas)" in this BioMed Central Pregnancy & Childbirth article. They conclude, "Efforts to improve access to skilled attendance should be accompanied by interventions to improve the safety of non-attended deliveries" (1/17).
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