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UN’s Still Birth Report
October 15 , 2020
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- United Nations recently launched a report on stillbirths titled “A Neglected Tragedy: The Global Burden of Stillbirths”.
- The report was created by UNICEF, World Health Organisation, World Bank and the United Nations department of economic and social affairs.
- Still birth means a baby born with no signs of life at 28 weeks of pregnancy.
- The report says that a stillborn baby is delivered every 16 seconds.
- 84 percentage of these grievous episodes occur in low and lower-middle-income countries.
- This is the first-time a stillbirth report has been published by the United Nations.
India’s status
- The report says that there were around 1.9 million still births globally and out of this 0.34 million were from India.
- India along with other countries such as Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan, China and Ethiopia contributed to half of all the stillbirth in the world.
- The progress in decline in still birth in India has improved in last two decades.
- The stillbirth rate has improved by 2.7% in 2010 as compared to 2000.
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