Tanzania: Research Sets Out Key Obstacles to Maternal Health in Rural Tanzania

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University of Ottawa — In Tanzania's rural Rorya region, approximately 40% of women aren't in the care of medical staff at hospitals or clinics when they deliver their babies. Instead they give birth at home, sometimes with a traditional birth attendant.

The region has the one of the lowest facility birth rates in the country. As a result, women die unnecessarily every year from treatable complications such as bleeding after delivery.

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