title: Labour shortage.
abstract: A worldwide shortage of midwives results in the unnecessary deaths of mothers and their babies.
authors.affiliation: Save the Children, London.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rawe
mesh_terms: D002608:Charities; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006113:United Kingdom