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Before anything gets published here, the claim behind it is checked against the data and given a verdict. These are those checks, as written — every figure sourced to a named, dated release, and the open questions left in.

Some of them refute the idea that prompted them. Those are the ones worth reading.

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    Maternal mortality: the stall was COVID; the real story is the denominator

    The world's maternal-mortality progress looks stalled since 2015. Extended to 2023 it isn't — the flatline was the pandemic. What is real is that global improvement is being partly masked by where the world's babies are born.

    healthdevelopment · 11 August 2026 · 12 series

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