1.   In some places, it meant maternal mortality and female infanticide.

2.   Abortions, maternal mortality and infant mortality have all fallen.

3.   But no measurable progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality or child malnutrition.

4.   But reducing maternal mortality is more complex.

5.   But the research, the first to analyze maternal mortality by state, uncovered huge disparities between black and white women, and among the states themselves.

6.   Female illiteracy and powerlessness go hand-in-hand with diminished female life expectancy, high rates of infant and child mortality and high rates of maternal mortality.

7.   Giving women more rights and more education means fewer unintended pregnancies and lower infant and maternal mortality, Schroeder said.

8.   Government statistics show long-stubborn black-white gaps are getting even bigger for diabetes, maternal mortality, asthma and several forms of cancer.

9.   He began a one-man crusade to heighten scientific interest in the condition and in maternal mortality in general.

10.   Heidi J. Larson of UNICEF says that if all goes well, child and maternal mortality rates will drop in half in Afghanistan over the next five years.