One stillborn baby is delivered every 16 seconds, says new report vaticannews.va
In the first-ever joint stillbirth estimates, the UN children’s fund, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the World Bank Group say that 84 per cent of stillbirths occur in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
The study entitled, “A Neglected Tragedy: The Global Burden of Stillbirths” analysed 117 countries in 2019, and found that 3 in 4 stillbirths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa or Southern Asia. The greatest number of stillbirths were concentrated in India, followed by Pakistan, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, China and Ethiopia…
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