Maputo — Despite a decline in recent years, the maternal mortality rate in Mozambique remains unacceptably high, according to a national meeting on mother and child health that began in Maputo on Wednesday.
Over the past decade maternal mortality has fallen from about 1,000 to 408 deaths per 100,000 live births. That still means that every year about 4,500 Mozambican women die of causes related with pregnancy, childbirth and the immediate post-natal period.
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