Results from this report showed that

Source Ministry of Health, maternal mortality surveillance system.

Una mirada rápida a los años 2000 2002. Review of the maternal mortality records compiled by the Department of Comprehensive Health Care for Women, Children and Young Persons and information generated by the maternal mortality surveillance system of the Ministry of Health.

Between 1990 and 2000, maternity was the primary cause of death among women of childbearing age.

The maternal mortality rate has remained generally low.

Studies show that unsafe abortions account for nearly one third of maternal deaths in Bolivia, which has among the highest rates of maternal mortality in Latin America.

Complicated abortion is believed to be responsible for 15 percent of the maternal mortality rate.

With a fertility rate of 5.9 births per woman, the maternal mortality rate stood at 990 per 100,000 births in 2010.

Intra hospital maternal mortality per 1000 living births for some provinces

Pregnancy related mortality was a major health problem during the period under review.

Maternal mortality ratio

The maternal mortality rate in Bangladesh has declined sharply by more than 66 over the last two decades.

The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Zimbabwe is 790.

Maternal mortality in Pakistan remains high.

The data on maternal death rate after the war are not reliable, but according to available data, where the cause of death is determined, the maternity death rate in 2000 was 8 per cent per 100,000.

At least in two of them there are errors and incomplete data ( Maternal mortality rate and Tuberculosis death rate ).

By the same date, to have reduced maternal mortality by three quarters, and under five child mortality by two thirds, of their current rates.

Maternal mortality, though declining, was still high.

12.24 It is reported that measuring maternal mortality rates is fraught with problems and is underestimated.

The maternal death rate before the war in 1990 was 21.4 deaths per 100,000 residents in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization (PAHO WHO), Special Program for Health Analysis, Health Situation in the Americas Basic Indicators 2002 (maternal and infant mortality).

As well, steps had been taken to reduce the rates of maternal mortality and morbidity.

Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, citing studies which attribute 10 of infant deaths to tobacco smoking mothers, considered adopting a smoking ban for pregnant women in 2006 with the aim of reducing infant mortality.

In an effort to collect more accurate data on maternal mortality, in 1996 the Ministry of Health began implementing a maternal mortality surveillance system throughout the country.

Table 11 Maternal mortality, by obstetric cause, 2002

Table 12 Maternal mortality, by primary cause of death, 2002

Most maternal, newborn and child deaths occur in poor communities.

Statistics on maternal mortality rates would be supplied to the Committee later.

For example, the United Nations database shows three data points for indicator No. 16 (maternal mortality ratio) whereas we have data for every year (13 years).

Life expectancy was only 45 years infant mortality was around 128 per thousand births, while maternal mortality was among the highest in the world, at 1,289 per 100,000 births.

Goal 4 Reduce child mortality

The number of maternal deaths in the United States is about 13 in 100,000.

Other causes that contribute indirectly to high mortality are

Table 13 Non obstetric maternal mortality, 2001 2002

Ministry of Health, Situación Nacional de Mortalidad Materna, 2002.

By educating girls, we will help raise economic productivity and reduce both maternal and infant mortality.

The extremely high maternal mortality rate due to unsafe abortions was a serious problem, but the most serious problem was the Government's inaction in the face of it.

Due emphasis must be given to maternal mortality reduction, sexual and reproductive health and newborn care, as well as to children over five years of age and adolescents.

Thus the infant mortality rate of the male child was better in urban. That of the female child was better in rural areas.

Ms. Khan said the high rate of maternal mortality, exacerbated by the lack of access to family planning and reproductive health services and the high rate of clandestine abortions, was indicative of the poor quality of health care available to women.

Some maternal deaths can also be attributed to the presence of other medical conditions.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Education leads to decreased infant mortality

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

Take child mortality the aim here is to reduce child mortality by two thirds, from 1990 to 2015.