'Sense of urgency' needed to cut maternal deaths, UNICEF head says

Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 11:07 in Health & Medicine

Women in the least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, UNICEF said in an annual report Thursday. Progress has been made in reducing child mortality.

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