The maternal death rate from pregnancy and childbirth was also 100 times greater back then than today.
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According to the World Health Organization, about 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Becoming a mother is a risky undertaking in the developing world, where every year over 500, 000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
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As for the general Medicaid population, the single greatest medical demand placed on the program, in terms of volume if not dollars, is pregnancy and childbirth.
About half a million women die each year during pregnancy and childbirth from complications that could easily be treated or prevented if they had access to appropriate care.
In this week's Scrubbing Up, Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, outlines her fears about the "commercialisation and the commodification of pregnancy and childbirth".
And Ruth Elias, who married in Theresienstadt, describes the horrors of pregnancy and childbirth in Auschwitz, her close encounters with Dr. Josef Mengele, and personal ironies of love and survival.
The reality means more than 350 million couples still lack access to a full range of family planning services, and 529, 000 women die annually from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, most of them preventable.
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Women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
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It is not the perfect backup plan, but for a woman who wants to experience pregnancy and childbirth and for a man who cares about passing on his DNA, it is not a bad one, either.
One example of such an approach is a collaboration between Merck for Mothers and PACE, the local affiliate of PSI in Uganda, to expand networks of franchised clinics in Uganda that can improve the quality, accessibility, and affordability of care women receive during pregnancy and childbirth.
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If so, no one is talking about it, because companies cannot even bring up the subject of pregnancy and childbirth among the poor without triggering the worst landmines in the health care policy debates, as we have witnessed since the daylighting of the Obamacare birth control mandate.
But pregnancy complications and childbirth are among the leading causes of death and disability for African women, Wall says.
Most new HIV infections are sexually transmitted or associated with pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.
Experts agree that maternal deaths could be prevented if women had access to basic medical care during pregnancy, delivery and immediately after childbirth.
In 2011, 6.9 million children died before their fifth birthday and 358, 000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth.
Women in the UK are at a higher risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth than those in Slovakia, Montenegro and Lithuania, according to the statistics.
Each year, nearly three million babies die within their first month of life -- more than a third die on their day of birth -- and 287, 000 women die from pregnancy or childbirth, according to the report.
Content includes information on nutrition, childhood diseases, pregnancy, childbirth, the first year of life, child survival, growth, learning, development and protection, and women empowerment.
The National Childbirth Trust recently published a book with information on what and how women should eat during pregnancy.
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