Brazil's childbirth haemorrhage deaths have not fallen in a decade
A national analysis of 2,985 haemorrhage deaths from 2015 to 2024 found no significant change over time — and Indigenous women dying at 2.87 times the rate of White women.
Maternal deaths climbed in a UNRWA cohort of 17,713 Gaza pregnancies
A Bulletin of the WHO study recorded 168 maternal deaths between October 2023 and June 2024, alongside higher stillbirth, neonatal-death and preterm-birth rates than before the war.
About 1,000 extra maternal deaths a year: modelling the USAID cuts in six countries
The estimate covers only populations in humanitarian need across Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Niger and Nigeria — and it assumes nothing replaces the lost money.
A mentoring scheme for pregnant teenagers halved deaths in a Sierra Leone pilot
In 12 clusters, 6% of girls in the intervention group experienced a maternal or perinatal death against 13% in control. The trial was a pilot, and the authors present it as such.