ASIA: Maternal mortality rate on rise
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Seventeen years ago, when more than half a million women lost their lives during pregnancy, labour or childbirth, the United Nations set itself a target. That target was to bring down the number of maternal deaths by 75 percent.
But a new U-N report released today shows that in 2005, that number dropped by less than one percent. But the news is not all bad,
Presenter: Stephanie March
Speakers: Rohini Weerasinghe, executive director of Kantha Shakthi, a Sri Lankan based women's development organisation; Paul Van Look, director of department of reproductive health and research from the World Health Organisation in Geneva
