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South Africa: Clinic Shows How to Cut Maternal Deaths

A maternal obstetric unit in Cape Town has not recorded a single maternal death from April 2011 to May this year with the help of a Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programme designed by the WHO.

  • South Africa:  Clinic Shows How to Cut Maternal Deaths

    allAfrica, 6 July 2012

    In a country where deaths from pregnancy and childbirth have been rising - more than four-fold in a decade, according to reports - not a single maternal death was recorded at a… Read more »

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A midwife attends to an expectant mother (file photo).

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