Parental warning
Goal 5: Maternal health : Safe childbirth is at the heart of all the other millennium goals, so why is it the one in greatest danger of failing?
The Guardian/ Sarah Boseley/ 24 Sept 2008 - Every minute, a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth and 30 more are disabled or damaged - a massive and shocking toll from what we think of as a normal and natural event. Childbearing is not a disease. Yet the millennium development goal the world is most in danger of missing is on the reduction of maternal mortality.