Maternal

Liya Kebede

UN health agency appoints Ethiopian supermodel as goodwill ambassador

7 March 2005
With half a million women dying during childbirth each year and 11 million children never seeing their fifth birthday, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today appointed Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede to the post of Goodwill Ambassador to highlight the problems and the solutions.

Sharp increase in skilled birth attendants needed to slash maternal deaths – UN

15 November 2004
The number of skilled attendants in developing countries needs to be increased by at least 333,000 if the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of slashing maternal deaths by two thirds by 2015 is to be achieved, according to a statement issued by the United Nations health agency and other experts today.
Indian woman having prenatal checkup

UN aims to cut toll of world's 500,000 women who die in childbirth each year

28 September 2004
With at least one woman in developing countries dying in childbirth every minute - more than half a million annually - the United Nations health agency today launched a drive to prevent these deaths by training health workers.

In fight against child mortality UNICEF chief urges doctors to address root causes

17 August 2004
With nearly 11 million children dying before the age of five every year, most from preventable causes, the world's paediatricians must champion action that reaches beyond traditional health initiatives to underlying factors such as poverty, discrimination, and minority marginalization, according to the United Nations' top children's advocate.

Maternity deaths in Iraq have nearly tripled since 1990, UN survey finds

4 November 2003
The number of Iraqi women who die in pregnancy or in childbirth has almost tripled since 1990, according to a survey released today by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

African women 175 times more likely to die in childbirth – UN study

20 October 2003
African women are 175 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in developed regions of the world, according to a United Nations interagency report released today.

UNICEF says every minute, one woman dies from pregnancy-related causes

8 March 2002
Every minute a woman somewhere in the world dies while pregnant or giving birth, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today, calling for increased international efforts to prevent maternal mortality.

Efforts to cut maternal deaths falter in developing countries, UN study finds

12 June 2001
Death associated with pregnancy and childbirth - a peril that has been virtually eliminated in developed countries - still affects over 500,000 women in the developed world, according to a new study released today by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).