title: Death in birth.
abstract: The number of women in poor countries who die in childbirth has barely changed in two decades--and this despite a host of medical breakthroughs. How can the incidence of this devastating human tragedy be reduced?
authors.forename: Vivienne
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Walt
mesh_terms: D003696:Delivery Rooms; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D008880:Midwifery; D011203:Poverty; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality*