GoalFive
Improve Maternal Health
More than half a million women die each year during pregnancy or childbirth. Twenty times that number
suffer serious injury or disability. Some progress has been made in reducing maternal deaths in developing
regions, but not in the countries where giving birth is most risky.
Source: UN MDG Report 2005
What are the targets?
Goal 5 of the Millennium Development Goals sets out by the year 2015 to:- Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.