Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 15
Paragraph
Document type
Resolution
Paragraph text
Expressing deep concern that hundreds of thousands of women die every year from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy or childbirth; that, for every death, an estimated twenty additional women and girls suffer from pregnancy-related and childbirth-related injury, disability, infection and disease; that more than 200 million women worldwide lack access to safe, affordable and effective forms of contraception, and that complications from pregnancy and childbirth are one of the leading causes of death for women between the ages of 15 and 19, in particular in many developing countries,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Health
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2010
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CPD resolution, Health, morbidity, mortality and development (2010), PP 15.