Sad News! For every 100,000 women who are pregnant, 349 end up dying due to pregnancy-related causes. Some die due to infections, and others due to bleeding when giving birth or soon after giving birth. Some die due to obstructed labour, yet others pass away as they attempt to terminate their unintended pregnancies. The talk around maternal deaths or maternal deaths is about women and girls who die due to pregnancy-related causes. In other words, for every 100,000 live births, the country registers 349 deaths of women. And Malawi registers over 800,000 pregnancies every year. The figure translates to deaths of 7 or 8 women every day because of pregnancy-related causes.