The study found that eighty-five percent of women who waited less than six months to get pregnant had live births.

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Chris Howson says many of the causes of preterm births are related to poverty and weak health-care systems.

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This is largely the result of more births in older women and more use of fertility treatments.

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Fertility treatments can produce multiple births, which increases the risk that the babies will arrive early.

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The rise of these births may be linked to increased use of drugs to start or speed up labor and more births by Cesarean section.

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In nineteen ninety, there were two hundred twenty-five deaths for every one thousand live births.

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They did not observe births and deaths unless they were involved in medical work.

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By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two.

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The rate is one in every one thousand two hundred births at age twenty-five.

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In other births, emotional or mental tension increases slowly as the woman's labor progresses.

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And they had fewer preterm births and fewer babies with low birth weight.

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More than eighty-five percent of preterm births happen in Africa and Asia.

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At thirty-five it rises to one in three hundred fifty births.

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Yet experts say many early births can be prevented.

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Most preterm births take place in Africa and Asia.

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But even Lo does not expect the improvement will bring the goal of 140 deaths per 100,000 births within reach.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The country aims to reduce the ratio of infants dying before their first birthday to 50 per 1,000 live births or five percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Around the world, cesarean births are on the rise, and many experts think that's a bad thing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

A year ago around 90 percent did. Also,more women receive care before giving birth than ever before, and more midwives are present at births.

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For example, there may be a correlation between maternal mortality and Caesarean births, or so-called "C-Sections."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

"It found that in Badakhshan the maternal mortality issue was 6,500 per 100,000 live births and that is the highest ever documented in human history."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

The country had hoped to bring that figure down to 140 deaths per 100,000 births by 2015 as part of its commitment to its Millennium Development Goals,or MDGs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Around 460 Cambodian women die in childbirth for every 100,000 births.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Whole lives play out on Facebook. Births.Graduations.Marriage.Even divorce Some experts say that sharing too much information can have downsides - including affecting the way prospective employers may evaluate a job candidate.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

And health care providers usually charge more. A World Health Organization survey of hospital and clinic births in nine Asian countries earlier this year found 27 percent were c-sections, and in China it was nearly half of all births.

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The University of North Carolina School of Medicine conducted a study that shows that by training local birth attendants in a method promoted by the World Health Organization, the number of still births was reduced by about 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11