Can the World Trade Organization Help Achieve the Health Millennium Development Goals?

More than half a million women die every year in pregnancy or childbirth. Awoman in Africa faces odds of 1 in 16 of dying in childbirth during her lifetime;in industrialised countries, the odds are only 1 out of 2800. The target of the fifthMillennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the level of maternal mortalityby three quarters by 2015. As of 2005, very few countries were on track to reach thistarget. In many poor countries, high levels of mortality are stable or even worsening.The United Nations Millennium Project recommends a number interventions to
Auteurs (Zotero)
Blouin, Chantal
Date de publication (Zotero)
janvier, 2007