Global Health Progress

More women in Guinea-Bissau are choosing to give birth in hospitals, instead of using traditional birthing attendants.  According to the UN Population Fund, 38 percent of women in Guinea-Bissau gave birth in a hospital in 2009, up from 29 percent in 2003.  Doctors and aid officials are hopeful that this trend will bring down the maternal death rate in the area.

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