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Text of report by Caribbean Media Corporation news agency website
Geneva, May 7: New United Nations data show that Barbados and Haiti are among 11 countries in Latin America and Caribbean that have made significant progress in reducing deaths from pregnancy-related causes since 1990.
The new report indicates that the maternal mortal ratio (MMR) in the 11 countries has been reduced by 40 per cent or more since 1990.
Besides Barbados and Haiti, the other countries are Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru.
The report, however, says that no country in the region is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality 75 per cent by 2015.
Despite this progress, it said an estimated 9,300 women lost their lives in Latin America and the Caribbean due to pregnancy-related causes in...