UNICEF report highlights higher risks for pregnant women and newborn babies in developing countries
BEIJING, 12 March 2009 – Women in the world's least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, according to UNICEF's latest State of the World's Children (SOWC) report. In China around 7,000 women die in childbirth each year, down 59 per cent from…