Supporting Safe Motherhood A Review of Financial Trends

Almost 500,000 women a year from developing countries die from pregnancy-related causes. In 1987, an international con-ference in Nairobi, Kenya launched a global Safe Motherhood Initiative with World Bank co-sponsorship. By 1989, how were the donors responding to the Initiative? IThe Policy, Research, and Extemal Affairs Cromplcx distnhutes PRE Working Papers to desc:xrninate the finduings of work in prungss and to ercomagc the exchangc of ideas among lBank staff and all others interested in develop ment issucs T'hese papers carry the namyes of the authors, rflect only their views, and should be used and cited accordingly lhe findings, interpeutieons, and conclusions arc the authors ' own. They ahould not be attributed to the World Bank, its Board of Directors, its managaescnt, or any of its member countnes Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz e