Study reveals stillbirths as a global problem

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http://english.aljazeera.net/video/europe/2011/04/201141454520324222.html


The data show that the major burden of stillbirth is carried by world's poorest countries.



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Every day more than three thousand women around the world go into labour, only to suffer the heartbreak of a stillbirth.

Now a new study by a leading medical journal, that revealed that every year 2.6m babies die in the last 12 weeks of pregnancy, shows just how widely the problem has been overlooked.

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we could include our poorest counties