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Dead Women Talking A civil society report on the maternal deaths in India According to the latest reports the MMR has fallen from 254 per 1,00,000 live births in 2004-06 to 178 per 1,00,00 live births in 2010-12. This is however far away from the MDG (Millennium Development Goal ) target of 109 per 1,00,000 live births by 2015. It is in the context of persistently high maternal mortality, governmental focus on institutional delivery rather than safe delivery, ignored social disparities in mortality, and lack of transparency in the documentation of maternal deaths that several civil society organisations in the country came together in 2012 under an initiative led by CommonHealth called Dead Women Talking. Read the full report of at commonhealth.in/index.html
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:30:58 +0000

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