During pregnancy, 1 in every 16 women may die in Subsaharian Africa. On the other hand, if they do live, they may suffer complications after the birth of the child that can endanger their role in society.


This Millennium Development Goal influences and is influenced by other difficulties felt in these countries, such as, the impossibility of gender equality, the increase in child mortality and bad nutrition and health which may cause 20% of children’s deaths.

goal #5:
improve maternal health

  1. Bullet Every year, more than 500 thousand women die due to pregnancy problems.

  2. Bullet The poorest families don’t have the necessary means to go to the emergency services.

  3. Bullet All over the world, more than 50 million women suffer with complications from problematic pregnancies.

  1. Bullet Urgent changes in hospitals.


  1. Bullet Improvements in birth techniques. Melhoramento das técnicas de parto.


  1. Bullet The richest coutries should send more doctors, nurses and medicine to the poorest coutries.


  1. Bullet The Non Governmental Organizations should constantly intervene.

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  1. Bullet MDG’s fact sheet (english)

  2. Bullet Child and maternal health (english)           

  3. Bullet Child and maternal health 2 (english)

  4. Bullet Gender equality (english)

  5. Bullet Map of maternal mortality (english)

  6. Bullet Map of reproductive health (english)

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