Huge Proportion Of Maternal Deaths Worldwide Are Preventable

A new study suggests that of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth in sub-Saharan Africa, more may die from treatable infectious diseases than from conditions directly linked to pregnancy.

These results indicate that effective treatment and prevention of infectious disease, such as antiretroviral drugs for treating HIV/AIDS and insecticide-treated bed nets for preventing malaria, could greatly reduce the maternal death toll in Mozambique and perhaps in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, it should be noted that the single most common cause of death was as expected: haemorrhage, massive blood loss around the time of delivery, ... Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Oct. 12, 2008

Interesting report on a landmark study significant to understanding maternal death, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This is insightful and original, but many more sources and viewpoints need to be included in order to establish solid context and relevance of the piece; perhaps include info from some of the other studies mentioned in conclusion? Even the reporter says, "...other representative studies of maternal death across the region are needed" in order to understand causes of maternal death elsewhere.

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 12, 2008

While this story contains the same problem, that of putting too much emphasis on a single study, that is entirely too common in stories about medical research, it does suggest an important pathway to the reduction of the obscenely high maternal mortality in the world.

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Mickey Mooney
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by Mickey Mooney - Feb. 17, 2010

I think that this was a good topic to be able to talk about during problems like this. I think that it gave some good information. I believe that this is a good topic to be able to talk about and have people be informed on what is going on.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
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Daniel Carrasquillo
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by Daniel Carrasquillo - Mar. 29, 2010

I really trust this source of science daily and know that much of the information is very unbiased and much of the information made very good sense and other sources mentioned were legit.

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Vienna Tartaglia
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by Vienna Tartaglia - Feb. 3, 2010

I was reading this and decided that it seemed factual. It gave facts about what they think is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa and what they believe what is actually happening and how they could possibly fix it.

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