It will be more than 160 years before a woman in Africa has the same chance of her baby being born alive as a woman in a wealthy country,fresh research claimsThe rate of progress on reducing the number of babies stillborn each year will need to double in some countries if agreed international targets are to be achieved, according to research that found most of the estimated 2.6 million stillbirths last year could have been prevented.
In a series of papers on ending preventable stillbirths, and published in the Lancet this week,researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), found the number of stillbirths had remain unchanged since 2011 and was still unacceptably tall. The average stillbirth rate had fallen from 24.7 per 1000 total births to 18.4 between 2000 and 2015, and but was still way above the World Health Assembly (WHA)-endorsed target of 12 or fewer in all countries by 2030.
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Source: theguardian.com