A woman dies every 90 seconds from complications during pregnancy or childbirth ���
86% of them in sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia [
[1]
]. According to experts, an estimated one in 26 women in sub-Saharan Africa is at risk
of dying during childbirth over her lifetime, compared with one in 7300 in developed
regions [
[1]
]. Girls are dying as well, since many are forced into marriages and pregnancies when
they are as young as 11 years old. Maternal deaths are all the more tragic because
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: December 09, 2010
Accepted:
October 20,
2010
Received:
October 17,
2010
Footnotes
���This editorial is adapted from ���Time to Save Women's Lives���, which appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of Ms. Magazine as part of the series, ���Three Ways to Save Women's Lives���.
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