Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

A recent United Nations report ranks India second in global maternal deaths, an alarming number despite the strides the country has made in reducing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). Globally, approximately one woman died every two minutes due to a...

Aksheev Thakur, Tribune News Service
Apr 11, 2025

A recent United Nations report ranks India second in global maternal deaths, an alarming number despite the strides the country has made in reducing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR).

Globally, approximately one woman died every two minutes due to a maternal cause in 2023, notes the report titled ‘Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023’. While Nigeria saw the highest number of maternal deaths in 2023, India ranked second, sharing the spot with the Democratic Republic of Congo; both accounted for 7.2 per cent each of global deaths.

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June 3, 2024
Elaine Ruth Fletcher

A bitter debate over proposed WHO recognition of a non-profit center for reproductive health rights, erupted in full force at the WHO Executive Board on Monday – after a tumultuous week of the World Health Assembly where member states largely skirted the increasingly contentious issue of sexual and reproductive health rights.

The proposal by the WHO Secretariat the US-based Center for Reproductive Rights be designated as a non-state actor in “official relations” with WHO – drew fierce opposition from member state blocs of the Eastern Mediterranean and African region – with Qatar threatening to escalate the issue and potentially the criteria for admitting non-state actors into official relations to the World Health Assembly if the WHO recognition of official relations with the organization is approved by the EB.

Continued: https://healthpolicy-watch.news/proposed-who-recognition-of-a-center-for-reproductive-health-rights-provokes-storm-at-who-executive-board/

India: Why maternal deaths continue to haunt

Proposed WHO Recognition of Center for Reproductive Rights Provokes Storm at WHO Executive Board