Changing attitude

Changing attitudes towards maternal health is one of the reasons that favorable changes occurred in maternal mortality ratio. This ratio fell from 322 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1998-2001 to 194 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2007-2010, according to the research “Maternal mortality in Bangladesh: a Countdown to 2015 country case study”. UN’s key millennium development goal was to achieve decreasing maternal mortality rate 5.5% from 1990 to 2015. However, an annual rate of decrease of this rate is 5.6%, one of the findings of this research.

Full report: “Maternal mortality in Bangladesh: a Countdown to 2015 country case study”