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Millenium Development Goals

Goal 5 : Improve maternal health

Target 6 :
Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio



    More than half a million women die each year in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications
    The maternal mortality rate is 100 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in OECD countries
    Each year,15 million women suffer from infections and other pregnancy-related complications

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30,000 children under five die from avoidable diseases every day
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