An estimated 150 million women in developing countries say they would prefer to plan their families but are not using contraception, and another 350 million women lack access to effective family planning methods. Reproductive health services can help . An estimated 36 million procedures take place in the developing world and 10 million in the developed world. Twenty million of these abortions are carried out under illegal and often unsafe conditions. Women who want to terminate a pregnancy tend to ignore the legal status of abortion.
Many women are willing to risk unsafe abortions.
In the poorest countries, women face a much higher risk of death from unsafe abortion. In Africa, one in every 150 abortions leads to death compared to one in every 85,000 procedures in the developed world. Nutritional Anemia in Pregnancy Iron-deficiency anemia is the most prevalent micronutrient deficiency in the world today . It is especially common in women of reproductive age and particularly during pregnancy. The prevalence of anemia varies greatly among and within countries and is often related to poverty.