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Under-five mortality remains a major public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa and Zimbabwe is one of the countries in the region that failed to achieve Millennium Developmental Goal 4 in 2015 [23]. The number of maternal deaths in ZImbabwe in 2017 was 2100 which has not changed a lot from 2200 recorded in 2000. [24]
Zimbabwe 's current abortion law, the Termination of Pregnancy Act, was enacted by Rhodesia 's white minority government in 1977. The law permits abortion if the pregnancy endangers the life of the woman or threatens to permanently impair her physical health, if the child may be born with serious physical or mental defects, or if the fetus was ...
Not to be confused with Maternal mortality rate. The maternal mortality ratio is a key performance indicator (KPI) for efforts to improve the health and safety of mothers before, during, and after childbirth per country worldwide. Often referred to as MMR, it is the annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related ...
Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births. [1] From Our World in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period. It depicts the risk of maternal death relative to the number of ...
The Termination of Pregnancy Act is a law in Zimbabwe governing abortion. Enacted in 1977 by the Parliament of Rhodesia and effective starting 1 January 1978, it was retained after Zimbabwe 's independence in 1980. [ 1] The law expanded abortion access, permitting it under three circumstances: if the pregnancy endangers the life of the woman or ...
Step 1: Treating zeros and extreme values: The maternal mortality rate is truncated systematically at minimum of 10 and maximum of 1,000. The maximum and minimum is based on the normative assumption that all countries with maternal mortality ratios above 1,000 do not differ in their ability to support for maternal health as well as the ...
The Maternal Health Initiative called for countries to reduce their maternal mortality rate by three quarters by 2015. [19] Eritrea is one of the four African countries to successfully achieve some or most of the Millennium Development Goals, [19] resulting in a rate of less than 350 deaths per 100,000 births.
95% of maternal deaths occur in low income contexts and countries, and in 25 years, the maternal mortality globally dropped to 44%. [25] Statistically, a woman's chance of survival during childbirth is closely tied to her social-economic status, access to healthcare, where she lives geographically, and cultural norms. [26]