CGPH FACULTY: Lee Riley
DATE OF PUBLICATION: January 2011
REGION: Latin America
REFERENCE: Tartof SY, Farrimond F, de Matos JA, Reis JN, Ramos RT, Andrade AN, dos Reis MG, Riley LW. Inverse association between Lancefield group G Streptococcus colonization and sore throat in slum and nonslum settings in Brazil. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Jan;49(1):409-12. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02095-10. Epub 2010 Nov 3.”
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Recent efforts to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries have focused primarily on two long-term aims: training and deploying skilled birth attendants and upgrading emergency obstetric care facilities. Given the future population-level benefits, strengthening of health systems makes excellent strategic sense but it does not address the immediate safe-delivery needs of the estimated 45 million women who are likely to deliver at home, without a skilled birth attendant. There are currently 28 countries from four major regions in which fewer than half of all births are attended by skilled birth attendants.
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