"Our members improve access to essential medical services for mothers and their children. 
   These efforts are aimed at reducing the numbers of children under the age of 5 who die
    each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care and poor sanitation...a figure 
    that is currently estimated at 7 million a year.
    According to another estimate, more than 80% of maternal deaths can be prevented with
   access to required health care and trained health care workers."
    
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