Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: Is Pregnancy Getting Safer for Women?

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Notes

* Unless otherwise referenced, examples and quotes in this editorial are from articles in this journal issue, indicated by author name.

† The full report will be published in October 2007 in: Maternal mortality in 2005: estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank. Geneva: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, 2007.

* The signatories included the UK, Norway, Germany and Canada, UN agencies and other international organisations, several developing country governments and the Gates Foundation.

* Thanks to Paul Van Look, Julia Hussein, Cherry Bird, Simone Diniz and Loveday Penn-Kekana for comments on an earlier draft of this text.