International Community Reaction
Reducing the maternal mortality by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 is the first target of Goal 5 -Improving Maternal Health - of the eight Millennium Development Goals; its progress is monitored at mdgmonitor.org
Proportionally, aid given to improve maternal mortality rates has shrunk as other public health issues, such as HIV/AIDS, have become major international concerns. This can be viewed at . Maternal health aid contributions tend to be lumped together with newborn and child health, so it is difficult to assess how much aid is given directly to maternal health to help lower the rates of maternal mortality. Regardless, there has been progress in reducing maternal mortality rates internationally as can be viewed .
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