Our maternal mortality is among the highest in the world.

A 1989 study found that maternal mortality at the hospital was 12.47 per 1,000, an extremely high figure.

Maternal mortality is on the rise, and the lives of women living in poverty are at particular risk.

Maternal mortality was 150 per 100,000 live births in 2000.

The development of medical abortion has also reduced maternal mortality.

Only women die from maternal mortality by the very definition of the term.

The rate of maternal and infant mortality was among the highest in the world.

Not until 1940, historians tell us, did maternal mortality improve over the high level of the 17th century.

This week's conference drew on new research and personal experiences to bring the problem of maternal mortality into focus.

There are more victims of maternal mortality alone in Afghanistan than the war: over 20 000 a year as against 2 300.