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Zambia: Pregnancy Is a Dangerous Pursuit
Jan 17, 2007
by Isabel Chimangeni
"Being pregnant in Africa is like having an unknown disease," says Zambian mother Alice Tembo, referring to many of her compatriots' lack of basic knowledge about pregnancy and childbirth.
She has recently given birth without any complications, which is exceptional in a country where the maternal mortality ratio is 728 per 100,000 live births.
However, Zambia's maternal death rate is still lower that the rate for the whole of the sub-Saharan African region, which stood at a shocking 920 per 100,000 live births in 2000 according to the United Nations Statistics Division.
Copyright Inter Press Service
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 17 January 2007
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