For more information on the health issues that affect women and girls, please read more on these important topics:
MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health and Universal Access to Reproductive Health
- Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2010 WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank Estimates World Health Organization (WHO), May 2012
- Maternal Mortality Scorecard Women Deliver, May 2008
- Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Healthcare Crisis in the USA Amnesty International, May 2010
- New Global Focus on Preterm Births Women Deliver, November 2012
- Safeguarding Pregnant Women with Essential Medicines PATH, September 2011
- The ABCs of the MDGs (Download: Français / Español) Women Deliver, October 2007
- Real Stories about Women and Girls: Putting a Face on Women Deliver Women Deliver, October 2007
- Giving Birth Should Not Be a Matter of Life and Death United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), March 2010
- Review of the Maputo Plan of Action: A Vehicle for Achieving the MDGs in Africa Women Deliver, December 2009
- The Road Map: Parliamentarians Take Action for Maternal and Newborn Health Inter-Parliamentary Union Interparliamentaire, Tweede Kamer de Staten Generaal, World Health Organization (WHO), November 2008
- Using the Millennium Development Goals to Realize Women's Reproductive Rights Center for Reproductive Rights, September 2008
- Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Contraceptive Services Guttmacher Institute, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), June 2012
- Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Contraceptive Services Estimates Factsheet Guttmacher Institute, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), June 2012
- Delivery Health, Saving Lives: The State of The World’s Midwifery Report 2011 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2011
- Accountability for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival: An Update on Progress in Priority Countries Coundown to 2015, March 2012
- Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth March of Dimes, Save the Children, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), World Health Organization (WHO), May 2012


