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22 June 2010
How Mobile Phone Technology Can Fight Maternal Mortality (UN Global News and Views)
Maternal mortality remains a major challenge to health systems worldwide.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every minute, at least one woman died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, about 585,000 women each year. To make matters worse, for every woman who dies in childbirth, 20 more suffer injuries, infection or disease (about 10 million women each year). And 4 million babies die before they are 30 days old. Millions more die from diseases such as malaria that has largely been eradicated in the developed world.