News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
As health ministers from around the world meet in the Ethiopian capital to tackle maternal mortality, women suffering birth-related injuries are given a new lease of life through a simple operation. Hailemariam Workneh is trying to amuse his son...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
At the UN Population Fund meeting in Addis Ababa the ministers said the number of women dying in this way was actually increasing in some nations. The ministers seemed to agree that family planning was the most cost-effective way of tacking the...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
But are there things we can do in our everyday lives to reduce the risks? Every minute of every day a woman dies in or just shortly after childbirth from haemorrhages, infections, high blood pressure and obstructed labour. Almost all these deaths are...