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Maternal health: Time to deliver.
A shocking and intolerable number of women die or are disabled each year trying to give birth- more than 10 million women according to the WHO, 99% of whom are in developing countries. In an Editorial linked to a new series on maternal, neonatal, and child health in Africa, the PLoS Medicine editors argue that maternal health policies must recognize the full spectrum of women's sexual and reproductive health for improvements in maternal health to be realized. The goal of the series is to identify scientific interventions and accelerate actions that are tailored and specific to sub-Saharan Africa. Based on consultations with 60 scientists and policy makers from nine countries and using local and national data, the series updates the current status of maternal and child health in the region, reviews evidence based solutions, and identifies high-impact opportunities for reducing maternal and child mortality.
Image Credit: Pierre Holtz for UNICEF (hdptcar.net)
Citation: (2010) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 7(6) June 2010. PLoS Med 7(6): ev07.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v07.i06
Published: June 29, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Pierre Holtz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A shocking and intolerable number of women die or are disabled each year trying to give birth‐ more than 10 million women according to the WHO, 99% of whom are in developing countries. In an Editorial linked to a new series on maternal, neonatal, and child health in Africa, the PLoS Medicine editors argue that maternal health policies must recognize the full spectrum of women's sexual and reproductive health for improvements in maternal health to be realized. The goal of the series is to identify scientific interventions and accelerate actions that are tailored and specific to sub-Saharan Africa. Based on consultations with 60 scientists and policy makers from nine countries and using local and national data, the series updates the current status of maternal and child health in the region, reviews evidence based solutions, and identifies high-impact opportunities for reducing maternal and child mortality.
Image Credit: Pierre Holtz for UNICEF (hdptcar.net)