Maternal health

Many women across the world give birth without medical assistance.

This massively increases the risk of complications or death. Ninety-nine percent of these deaths are in developing countries. The majority are preventable with appropriate care.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) healthcare teams work together with pregnant women to provide ante- and post-natal care, as well as care during childbirth, including for obstetric emergencies.

With midwives and traditional birth attendants we establish programmes so that complicated births can be identified quickly to help prevent maternal deaths.