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Nigeria Steps Up Midwifery Plan to Save Mothers' Lives

The national health policy has considered primary healthcare as the framework to improve health services for all citizens, including the  provision of health education, adequate nutrition, safe water and sanitation and reproductive health among others, the Minister of Health Isaac Adewole has said.

Lucia Zoro/Save the Children

Each year 40 million women across the world give birth without trained help, according to new research published by Save the Children, jeopardising millions of newborns and mothers' lives

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