Maternal Mortality in the last 30 years
Very interesting article out of the Lancet this month.
Full disclosure, I haven’t finished it, but this sentence in the abstract made my stomach turn a bit.
More than 50% of all maternal deaths were in only six countries in 2008 (India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
With a total of 1.6 billion people shared among them, these six countries make up about 24% of the global population; still, although I don’t have stats at hand about percentage of live births, that burden of suffering seems grotesquely disproportionate.
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Affordable Housing?
Some quick facts:
- If you were an individual living at the Federal Poverty Line, you had an income of $866/month in 2008.
- The Fair Market Rent for Suffolk County (i.e., Boston) is $1086/month for a one bedroom apartment.
- 18% of the population of Suffolk County lived below the Federal Poverty Line in 2008.
