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Anteneh Asefa Mekonnen

PhD Candidate, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
 

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Respectful maternity care to end mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: a people-centred care approach to accelerate UHC

As is well known, the target set by the MDGs to reduce global maternal mortality by 75% has fallen short – only a 45% reduction was observed between 1990 and 2015. As a reminder: 50% of global maternal deaths occurred in 5 developing countries (India, Nigeria, DRC, Ethiopia, and Pakistan) in 2015; 66 % of all deaths took place in Sub-Saharan Afr...