Maternal deaths
Gauteng aims to lower maternal deaths after two moms die giving birth
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku says the cases involved serious complications but maternal deaths had halved in the past year.
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ANALYSIS: Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women, girls
The aim is to reduce maternal deaths, address the unmet need for family planning and end gender-based violence across Africa by 2030.
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Doctors warn of global C-section ‘epidemic’
Doctors say millions of women each year may be putting themselves and their babies at unnecessary risk by undergoing unnecessary C-sections.
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Cheap blood drug could prevent thousands of maternal deaths in developing world
A cheap and widely available drug could save the lives of one in three of the 100,000 new mothers who bleed to death after childbirth every year.
