Introduction In this article, I would like to highlight the barriers and solutions to maternal mortality conditions in Malawi. Before 1990, maternal mortality was prevalent and therefore became the issue to be included and resolved as the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG). The inclusion of maternal mortality among the objectives of resolving international issues demonstrates its importance for building a better society. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes maternal mortality as: The death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, regardless of the duration and location of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes. To facilitate the identification of maternal deaths in circumstances where attribution of the cause of death is inadequate, a new category has been introduced: pregnancy-related death is defined as the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, regardless of the cause of death (World Health Organization 2013) Maternal mortality is an influential indicator of inequality in society. Among the indicators used to equate levels of development between countries and regions, levels of maternal mortality show the widest disparities (World Health Organization, UNICEF 1996). Overview Malawi, formerly known as Nyasaland, became a free nation from British rule, in 1967. The country is located in the southeastern region of the African continent with Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique to east, south and west. Malawi has an estimated population of 16.5 million as of 2013. Malawi maintains diversity among the communities it lives in. it helps. It has almost ten... half of the paper... e-through-good-design/Thaddeus, S., & Maine, D. (1994). Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context. Social sciences and medicine, 38 (8), 1091-1110. Weiss, C. (1998). Assessment. New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall.World Health Organization. (2013). WHO: Maternal mortality. Retrieved 2013 from World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs348/en/index.htmlWorld Health Organization. (2013). Health statistics and health information systems. Retrieved October 2013 from the World Health Organization website: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/indmaternalmortality/en/World Health Organization, UNICEF. (1996). Revised 1990 estimates of maternal mortality: a new approach from WHO and UNICEF. World Health Organization.World Health Organization. (2004). Reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Africa. African Health Observatory , 5 (1), 5-7.