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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Despite Progress, More Effort 'Urgently' Needed To Prevent Maternal Mortality In Africa
Citing a U.N. report released in May, titled "Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2010," which shows "the number of women worldwide dying of pregnancy and childbirth-related complications has almost halved in the last 20 years," Agnes Odhiambo, a researcher for women in Africa at Human Rights Watch, writes in this Inter Press Service opinion piece, "Although there was a 41 percent reduction in sub-Saharan Africa, the progress is slow and uneven.
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