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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9733

5 September 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/health/development
Too many women dying in childbirth

Brussels, 04/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels on Thursday 4 September, the European Parliament adopted a resolution by 394 votes to 182, with 34 abstentions, thereby expressing its deep concern that maternal mortality (5th Millennium Development Goal) is the only goal for which not only has there been no progress since 2000, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and in Southern Asia, but indeed has seen no progress for 20 years: almost 536,000 women die in childbirth every year and over...

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