"Pregnancy and childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/health/24birth.html?_r=1&th&emc=th


Where Life’s Start Is a Deadly Risk

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Pregnancy and childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year, more than half of them in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

Most of the deaths are preventable, with basic obstetrical care.

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“You can never get used to maternal deaths,” said Dr. Siriel Nanzia Massawe, an obstetrician and the director of postgraduate studies at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, the country’s largest city. “One minute she’s talking with her husband, then she is bleeding and then she is gone. She’s gone, very young. You cannot sleep for one week. That face will always come back to you. Too many die, too young. But the people in power, they have not seen it. We need to make them aware.”

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“Why don’t we have a global fund for maternal health, like the one for TB, malaria and AIDS?” Dr. Massawe asked.
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good question

(if men got pregnant it would be different)

Unless you think that somehow in Africa, men never die of preventable causes.

that don't include women's concerns.

nt

I have twice.

Fail.

seems to be missing from many men. Since I am a scientist who deals directly with health in the laboratory, I do understand science.

You have discovered the Truth!

Brethren, silence the unbeliever!!!

where one lives and if the issue involves birth which only happens to women then the concern (if possible) is even less.

Attempting to control women through reproduction is ALWAYS there.:(

nt

So very, very sad, and so true

And check her health background first.

Problem solved, lives saved :)

to even touch his pecker. We all know how men can't control themselves, all that loose sperm running around-- so to speak