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SIERRA LEONE: Women access pow...
SIERRA LEONE: Women access power, vote by vote
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
In Kailahun, Sierra Leone, the poorest region in the world's poorest country, women are trying to effect change on the issues that matter to them –...
equality, womens right, maternal mortality, childbirth
ETHIOPIA: Saving lives with tr...
ETHIOPIA: Saving lives with trained birth attendants
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Like many teenagers in rural Ethiopia, Shekuria Mume, 19, became pregnant, quit school and got married at 15. The birth of her first baby remains one...
birth, pregnancy, midwife, maternal mortality
UNICEF: Report highlights risk...
UNICEF: Report highlights risk of maternal mortality in developing world
Monday, October 06, 2008
Nearly all maternal deaths occur in developing countries; over 80 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia A new report on maternal mortality,...
maternal mortality, mother, birth, pregnancy
GUINEA-BISSAU: Maternal mortal...
GUINEA-BISSAU: Maternal mortality among world’s highest
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
When Aisha (not her real name) went into labour in Gabu, 160km east of the capital Bissau, she did not know she was pregnant with twins. The first...
maternal mortality, pregnancy, birth
NIGER: Northern desert conflic...
NIGER: Northern desert conflict disrupts maternal health care
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
All she saw was blood. Ouma Ibrahim knew it was not normal to have so much blood after delivering her son at home. She consulted a midwife at the...
maternal mortality, women, hospital
GHANA: Race against time to cu...
GHANA: Race against time to cut maternal mortality
Friday, August 08, 2008
In a country where the World Health Organization estimates 560 pregnant women will die out of every 100,000 that go into labour, the news that a...
pregnancy, maternal mortality, birth
Sister Rugiatu Kanu, a midwife...
Sister Rugiatu Kanu, a midwife in Sierra Leone. “We lack everything”
IRIN
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sierra Leone has one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world. Among the myriad problems mothers there face is a lack of skilled,...
problems, health, medical, assistance, facilities, maternal mortality, babies
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