WHO Admits: There Is No Evidence For Recommending A 10-15% Caesarean Limit 

From Medical News Today  October 29, 2009

The World Health Organization has finally updated its 1985 recommendation on caesarean rates, admitting that "no empirical evidence for an optimum percentage" exists, an "optimum rate is unknown," and world regions may now "set their own standards."   READ MORE 

Does It? Really? “WHO Admits: There Is No Evidence for Recommending a 10-15% Caesarean Limit”

By Henci Goer (her response to the article above)  October 30, 2009

"This is the title of a Medical News Today piece, actually a re-posting of a press release from a coalition of websites that promote elective cesarean surgery. The press release claims that the 2009 edition of the WHO’s “Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook”  has rescinded its 1985 recommendation that cesarean rates not exceed 10-15%. Can this be true? Not so much.

In fact, not at all."  READ MORE