Gambia: Report - About 70,000 Adolescents Die of Pregnancy, Childbirth

[Daily Observer]The 2013 World Population Report of the United Nations Fund for Population Affairs' (UNFPA) has indicated that based on a UNICEFF research in 2008, about 70,000 adolescents in developing countries die annually of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. The report also quoted a completed 2012 World Health Organisation (WHO) research, which indicated that complications of pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death for older adolescent females.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - Category: OBGYN Source Type: news