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Laos country progress report on reproductive health
The maternal mortality ratio is 600-700/100,000 live births and the prenatal mortality rate is 90/1,000 live births. These high statistics are due to the fact that most births are unattended. Reasons for this include difficulty accessing health services from remote areas. Other factors contributing to the poor quality of care include chronic lack of medicines, medical equipment and laboratory facilities as well as lack of current clinical skills on the part of health care providers. This lack of quality dissuades women from seeking care at health facilities because the medical interventions provided will not help them or their newborns. Many women also hold a deep-seated belief that birth is a "normal and physiological" event and thus requires no medical assistance. Read more from this report or download the document now.

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