Women and Children

Maternal Mortality's Youngest Victims

By Barbara Crossette | April 25, 2011
MEXICO CITY -- Hidden in much of the discussion and speculation about why maternal mortality is defying global efforts to lower it to levels promised by the Millennium Development Goals is one vital statistic: the frequent deaths of adolescent girls too young to bear children.


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