Washington — Three times a day, 27-year-old Omari Ali breaks from his job repairing cars in Amani Freshi, a suburb of Zanzibar City, Zanzibar, and heads to the local health center to care for his newborn twin sons.
He opens his shirt, picks up one of the premature boys and straps the infant to his chest to give his son the skin-to-skin contact that will warm and sustain the child. His wife, Salma Issa, gave birth to the twins in her seventh month of pregnancy. The boys each weighed less than 1.5 kilograms.
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