Maternal mortality and morbidity: Consolidating the gains, addressing the ongoing disparity

In the developing or majority world, girls and women continue to die from largely preventable causes of maternal death. Each year nearly 289,000 die another twenty million suffer from non-fatal, but significant complications of pregnancy. These devastating deaths and disabilities of mothers are attributable to three delays: delays in the home, in transportation and at the health care facilities. The problems created by these delays are …