Improving Maternal & Newborn Health in Africa & Asia
WCF currently manages programmes in Bangladesh, India and Malawi, and has previously worked in Nepal.
Of all health statistics, those for maternal mortality show the greatest disparity between developing and developed countries: more than 99 per cent of maternal deaths occur in poor countries. The map below compares the maternal and neonatal mortality ratios in the countries where WCF works to Sweden and the UK. Sweden is ranked first and the UK tenth in the Mothers Index in State of the World's Mothers: 2006.
(MMR) Maternal Mortality Ratio - Number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. (NMR) Neonatal Mortality Ratio - Number of deaths in the first 28 days of life per 1,000 live births
Source: Data on Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal from each country DHS. Data on the UK and Sweden from 'The World Health Report 2005: make every mother and child count'. Geneva, WHO
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