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Improve Maternal Health:<br />

A move towards<br />

universalizing health care<br />

� By MERCEDES FABROS<br />

Summary<br />

T<br />

here is a movement in numbers but too insignifi cant. Pregnant women<br />

continue to die of preventable causes.<br />

The most vulnerable women have been identifi ed over the past<br />

years. We know where they are. Their regions down to their provinces have been<br />

located. Approaches and strategies have been thought out and the technology to<br />

prevent maternal death is known to all the medical and economic technocrats working on this. So<br />

why is there no dramatic decline in mortality rates? Where are the women? Why don’t we hear their<br />

outrage?<br />

Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG <strong>Report</strong> 2010 87

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