She noted that Nigeria ranks third globally in maternal mortality, with Kebbi contributing significantly to this troubling statistic. The workshop brought together over 110 participants, including ...

Since 2000, the global maternal mortality rate has nearly halved worldwide. The numbers went from almost half a million women dying from childbirth on an annual basis at the turn of the century to ...

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The study, published in the JAMA Network online journal, compared maternal mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics in two time periods.Researchers stratified the year and ...

Maternal mortality rates for Black women were significantly higher than the rates for White, Asian and Hispanic women in 2023, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, estimated in 2020 to be 545 maternal deaths per 100 000 livebirths, more than 136 times higher than that of the lowest region.1 ...

Maternal mortality rates for Black women were significantly higher than the rates for White, Asian and Hispanic women in 2023, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the ...

Sarah Wakeman, MD, Senior Medical Director for Substance Use Disorder at Mass General Brigham, is the co-senior author and Will Oles, BS, of Harvard Medical School, is a corresponding author of a ...