High maternal death rates such as Uganda's are an indicator of an inadequate healthcare system, which is clearly a violation of women's fundamental rights to life, health and self-determination.
In addition, some patient groups and members of Congress have recently asked why AIDS receives disproportionately far more than diseases with higher death rates, such as heart disease and Alzheimer's.
Although population-based data would provide a more accurate assessment of cysticercosis death rates, such data are scarce.
The death rate from such complications is around one in 400 operations.
The death rate is such that every 15 minutes, an elephant somewhere is killed by poachers.
The annual death rate among such patients was 40percentt before the introduction of antiretroviral drugs, Dr. Gandhi said.
Urgent action is needed to improve care for mothers-to-be with pre-existing medical and mental health problems, experts said, as a new study showed that the death rate among such women has remained constant despite an overall fall in maternal deaths.
The death rate in such cases is alarmingly high not because the patients initially are gravely ill, but because hospital germs increasingly are resistant to multiple antibiotics: About 70% of those infections are resistant to at least one drug, so the infections are hard to treat.
The model proposes a bifurcation point in the death rate parameter such that when death rate is below a critical threshold, colony population reaches an equilibrium point determined by model parameters, but when forager death rate is sustained above the threshold, colony population declines to zero and the colony fails.
The death rate after such treatment is less than 15%.
