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Congo-Kinshasa: Where Giving Birth Is Deadly
allAfrica, 8 May 2012
Her limbs flaccid, her eyes wide with fear and pain, Théthé's cries seem oddly detached from her body, as if part of her isn't lying on a brown vinyl mattress, slick… Read more »
A 33-year-old woman at a clinic in the capital, Kinshasa, holds her second set of twins. She has seven children total.
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Kavita Masenga is the head nurse in the maternity ward at Kinshasa General Hospital. It once hosted the largest maternity ward in all of sub-Saharan Africa, with up to 150 births a day. Patients came ... see more »
Save the Children’s thirteenth State of the World’s Mothers report shows Niger as the worst place to be a mother in the world — ... see more »
Of the ten countries listed as the worst places in the world to be a mother, eight are in Africa. see more »
Médecins Sans Frontières makes it a priority to provide life-saving, emergency obstetric care in both acute and chronic humanitarian ... see more »
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