Editing Guinea (section)

==== Maternal and child healthcare ====
The 2021 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Guinea is 576.<ref>{{cite web |date=21 May 2021 |title=Impact Brief: Guinea |url=https://www.usaid.gov/global-health/health-areas/family-planning/resources/impact-brief-guinea |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028205848/https://www.usaid.gov/global-health/health-areas/family-planning/resources/impact-brief-guinea |archive-date=28 October 2022 |access-date=28 October 2022}}</ref> This is compared with 680 in 2010, 859.9 in 2008 and 964.7 in 1990. The under 5 mortality rate per 1,000 births is 146 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under 5's mortality is 29. In Guinea, the number of midwives per 1,000 live births is 1 and the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women is 1 in 26.<ref name="SOWMY">{{cite web |title=The State of the World's Midwifery |url=http://www.unfpa.org/sowmy/report/home.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225024306/http://www.unfpa.org/sowmy/report/home.html |archive-date=25 December 2011 |access-date=25 August 2011 |publisher=United Nations Population Fund}}</ref> Guinea has the second highest prevalence of [[female genital mutilation]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHO – Female genital mutilation and other harmful practices |url=https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/prevalence/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012192739/http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/prevalence/en/ |archive-date=12 October 2014 |access-date=15 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=22 July 2013 |title=Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change – UNICEF DATA |url=http://www.unicef.org/media/files/FGCM_Lo_res.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405083031/http://www.unicef.org/media/files/FGCM_Lo_res.pdf |archive-date=5 April 2015 |access-date=23 July 2017 |website=Unicef.org}}</ref>