Twenty years sees little progress when it comes to pregnancy related deaths.
Each year more than half a million women die around the world because of complications resulting from pregnancy - a figure that鈥檚 hardly changed in the past two decades. It's one of the issues a global conference in London later this week hopes to tackle. In Pakistan alone there are 15,000 deaths a year. We hear from Shabana in Karachi about her decision to give birth at hospital rather than use a traditional birth attendant or dai. Jane is joined in the studio Ann Starrs the organiser of the conference and Pam Das, editor of a special edition of medical journal The Lancet, looking at the maternal health of women around the world
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