[Published: Thursday January 21 2010]
Amnesty International to launch Mortality report
Ouagadougou, 21 Jan-(ANA)- Amnesty International is visiting Burkina Faso on 27 January to launch a report ‘Giving Life, Risking Death: Maternal Mortality in Burkina Faso’.
Giving Life, Risking Death outlines how women and girls are dying needlessly during pregnancy and childbirth because they don't have access to education and sexual health advice.
The Burkina Faso government’s efforts to reduce maternal deaths have been undermined by abuses by medical staff, shortages of supplies and staff, as well as discrimination against women. (ANA)
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