It is one of the world’s greatest hidden epidemics, but the search for a solution is hopelessly underfunded. On average, every minute of every day a woman somewhere dies in childbirth or pregnancy, the overwhelming majority in developing countries. It is estimated that they number more than half a million every year, in what Norway’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, told the United Nations last week was ‘the biggest expression of brutality to women I can imagine’.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/28/sierraleone.internationalaidanddevelopment
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