The report, published in the medical journal the Lancet, revealed that the number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth has dropped by more than 35 percent in the past 30 years. Thirty years ago, there were half a million deaths from childbirth each year. In 2008, there 343,000 deaths from childbirth. Murray said that’s still too many.
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Chris Murray on why fewer women are dying in childbirth
