the African die in childbirth times more likely to
According to the UN, African women die in childbirth in 175 times more often than women in developed Western countries. Only in 2000, 95% of the total number of deaths during childbirth (529 000) occurred in Africa and Asia, and per 100 000 births in developed countries accounted for 20 deaths in the area of the Sahara desert - 920, South Central Asia the figure was 520, in South-East Asia, 210, 240 and Oceania Latin American countries - 190 deaths. This is the cost of lack of skilled and often do any medical care, not to mention the possibility of family planning. She.