When: Thursday, October 5, at 9:00am
Where: the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC
On Sept. 28, the Lancet published a landmark series of papers on reducing the burden of maternal mortality in developing countries. The maternal survival series addresses the deaths of women who die from preventable causes related to their pregnancy and provides evidence for solutions that can be taken to scale.
One in 2,500 women in the United States will die of maternal causes in her lifetime. In sub-Saharan Africa, the average figure is a staggering one in 16, and in South Asia, one in 43. The burden of maternal mortality in developing compared to developed countries constitutes the "largest discrepancy of all public health statistics" and is considerably greater than differentials for child and newborn mortality. Approximately 529,000 women die worldwide during pregnancy or childbirth each year.
The U.S. launch of this important series will be on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 9 am at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
Dr.
E. Anne Peterson, MD,
MPH, Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Global Health,
United States Agency
for International Development,
presents at the event [MS
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Read other presentations from the Lancet
Series: A Child Survival Revolution.
