Researchers have said that a small increase in number of skilled birth attendants in the world’s poorest nations could save the lives of a substantial number of women and their babies. Study leader Linda Bartlett, MD, MHSc, a faculty member in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that even deploying a relatively small number of midwives around each country could have a profound impact on saving maternal, fetal and newborn lives. He said that their study shows that maternal mortality can be prevented, even in the most difficult of places. In their analysis, researchers found that a 10 percent increase in midwife coverage every five years through 2025 could avert more than a quarter of maternal, fetal and infant deaths in the world’s 26 neediest countries such as Ethiopia and Somalia.

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