Progress in reducing global maternal mortality stalled from 2016 to 2020 according to the
first UN report on trends during this period. Published on Feb 23, the report reveals that …

Of all health indicators, maternal mortality reveals the greatest gap between rich and poor
women, both between and within countries. Each year, 536 000 women die from …

Comment 2026 www. thelancet. com Vol 379 June 2, 2012 child mortality) and MDG 5. At
that time, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for …

In today's Lancet, Kenneth Hill and colleagues from the Maternal Mortality Working Group
present new estimates of maternal mortality for 2005, and examine trends in such mortality …

Maternal death rates are rising again in many countries, yet this alarming fact has gone
largely unacknowledged in the medical and lay press. In 2020, one woman died every 2 min …

The estimates of maternal mortality presented by Margaret Hogan and colleagues (May 8, p
1609) 1 are a major improvement over previous estimates. However, they still have …

Rates of maternal mortality, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality are substantially higher in the
lowest than in the highest income countries; 98% or more of these adverse outcomes occur …

Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative in the mid-1980s, progress has been
slower than expected. 1–3 Some observers attribute this delay to insufficient commitment on …

with the greatest reductions in the second half of this period. A major catalyst for this
progress was the target set by Millennium Development Goal 5: reduction of the maternal …

Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 388 October 15, 2016 1865 that 60% of maternal deaths
happen in “humanitarian situations like refugee camps”. 2 The 60% has even made its way …