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New research has said
there were more than 2.5 million stillbirths across the world last
year, two-thirds of them in Africa.
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The Lancet
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BBC
Africa Live report continues:
The
Lancet says it's horrific and scandalous that half of the stillbirths in
2015 happened during delivery - most entirely preventable.
According
to the medical journal, which looked at five studies, the country
with the highest rate of stillbirths is Pakistan, but the next nine worst rates
are all in countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
One study predicts it could
be more than 160 years before the average chances of a baby being born alive in
sub-Saharan Africa are the same as in a developed country today.
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