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Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.

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Although only 23 countries are on track to achieve a 75% decrease in MMR by 2015, countries such as Egypt, China, Ecuador, and Bolivia have been achieving accelerated progress and substantial, albeit varied, progress has been made towards MDG 5.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2010-05-08. It has received 2163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sisterhood method & Obstetric transition.

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Timing of maternal death: Levels, trends, and ecological correlates using sibling data from 34 sub-Saharan African countries.

TL;DR: Ecological analysis showed that antenatal care coverage was significantly associated with low antepartum mortality, whereas the presence of a skilled attendant at childbirth was significantlyassociated with low postpartum mortality.
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The influence of intrafamilial power on maternal health care in Mali: perspectives of women, men and mothers-in-law.

TL;DR: Interventions focusing on women or couples may be insufficient to advance women's reproductive health in patriarchal societies such as Mali, and future research and programmatic efforts need to address gender norms and consider the influence of other family members, such as mothers-in-law.
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The Uptake of Integrated Perinatal Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: The uptake of counseling and HIV testing among pregnant women attending antenatal care was high, but their retention in PMTCT programs was low, and the majority of women in the included studies did not receive ARV prophylaxis in antenatal Care; nor did they attend labor ward.
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Trends in sociodemographic and health-related indicators in Bangladesh, 1993-2007: will inequities persist?

TL;DR: Rich-poor gaps in urbanization, age at marriage, fertility, condom use, home delivery and overweight increased; in contrast, gaps in education, water and sanitation, use of contraception (except condoms) and child vaccination declined.
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The effect of HIV infection on maternal health and mortality

TL;DR: Reduction of HIV‐related maternal deaths must be seen as a worldwide priority in maternal health care.
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The Millennium Development Goals Report

TL;DR: Ban et al. as discussed by the authors stated that the global community cannot turn its back on the poor and the vulnerable, and that the goals are within reach, and even in the very poor countries, with strong political commitment and sufficient and sustained funding.
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Locally Weighted Regression: An Approach to Regression Analysis by Local Fitting

TL;DR: Locally weighted regression as discussed by the authors is a way of estimating a regression surface through a multivariate smoothing procedure, fitting a function of the independent variables locally and in a moving fashion analogous to how a moving average is computed for a time series.
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CLARIFY: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results

TL;DR: Clarify is a program that uses Monte Carlo simulation to convert the raw output of statistical procedures into results that are of direct interest to researchers, without changing statistical assumptions or requiring new statistical models.
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Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why

TL;DR: Targeting of interventions to the most vulnerable--rural populations and poor people--is essential if substantial progress is to be achieved by 2015, and local variation can be important.
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