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Maternal Mortality in Africa (Part I), Regional Trends (1990-2015)

Luc Onambele
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Wilfrido Ortega-Leon
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Sara Guillen-Aguinaga
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Maria João Forjaz
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Amanuel Yoseph
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Laura Guillen-Aguinaga
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Rosa Alas-Brun
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Alberto Arnedo-Pena
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Ines Aguinaga-Ontoso
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Francisco Guillen-Grima
Version 1 : Received: 14 July 2022 / Approved: 23 September 2022 / Online: 23 September 2022 (03:06:07 CEST)

How to cite: Onambele, L.; Ortega-Leon, W.; Guillen-Aguinaga, S.; Forjaz, M.J.; Yoseph, A.; Guillen-Aguinaga, L.; Alas-Brun, R.; Arnedo-Pena, A.; Aguinaga-Ontoso, I.; Guillen-Grima, F. Maternal Mortality in Africa (Part I), Regional Trends (1990-2015). Preprints 2022, 2022090353. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0353.v1 Onambele, L.; Ortega-Leon, W.; Guillen-Aguinaga, S.; Forjaz, M.J.; Yoseph, A.; Guillen-Aguinaga, L.; Alas-Brun, R.; Arnedo-Pena, A.; Aguinaga-Ontoso, I.; Guillen-Grima, F. Maternal Mortality in Africa (Part I), Regional Trends (1990-2015). Preprints 2022, 2022090353. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0353.v1

Abstract

Background: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals state that by 2030, the Global maternal mortality rate (MMR) should be lower than 70 per 100,000 live births. MMR is still one of Africa's leading causes of death among women. This research aims to study regional trends in maternal mortality in Africa. Methods: We extracted data for Maternal mortality rates per 100,000 births from the World Bank database from 1990-2015. Joinpoint regression was used to study the trends and estimate the annual percent change (APC). Results: Maternal mortality has decreased in Africa over the study period by an average APC of -2.6%. All regions showed significant downward trends, with the sharpest decreases in East Africa. Only the North African region is close to the United Nations' sustainable development goals for Maternal mortality. The remaining sub-Saharan African regions are still far from achieving the goals. Conclusions: maternal mortality has decreased in Africa, especially in East Africa. The only region closed to the United Nations target is North Africa. The remaining sub-Saharan African regions are still far from achieving the goals. These results could be used for the development of Regional Policies.

Keywords

Africa; Maternal mortality rate; Joinpoint regression analysis; mortality; trends

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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