Background rates of pregnancy outcomes by region of Sub-Saharan Africa.

SAMM = Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity; NND = Neonatal Deaths; LBW = Low Birth Weight; MCM = Major Congenital Malformations.†For Severe Maternal Morbidity, Low Birth Weight, Prematurity, and Major Congenital Malformations, the median and range of a systematic review is presented for the entire region. In Central Africa, only 1 data point was available for Severe Maternal Morbidity [52] and for Major Congenital Malformations [60], so no range was presented.¥Maternal and neonatal deaths were expressed as a fraction of total births by multiplying the maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths/live births) and the early and late neonatal mortality ratios (neonatal deaths/live births) by 1 minus the stillbirth rate [44].