Maternal Mortality

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Public transport bus staff offers hand-sanitizer to a passenger who is about to board the bus on the first day of the easing of the lockdown measures during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lagos, Nigeria May 4, 2020. The photo shows a bus driver dispensing sanitizer to passengers as they board. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Shifting Front Lines in West Africa

by Evaborhene Aghogho Nelson 

Leveraging community health promoters to protect vulnerable populations against COVID- 19 and other threats in Nigeria

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Women wait in line during a UNICEF supported mobile health clinic in the village of Rubkuai in Unity State, South Sudan on February 16, 2017. Picture shows five women in a line with more lined up on the other side of them. The three women in the middle are standing very close, and the third has her arms around the shoulders of the second, suggesting they all know each other. This photo is moving in its simple, straightforward humanity. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

How to Save the Lives of Women and Girls in Africa

by Edinah Masiyiwa

African governments must follow through on their lofty declarations and allocate national budgets to save women’s lives

A woman holds her newborn in a nursery at the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan on Apr 3, 2013, which had one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates then at 2,054 per 100,000 live births. Photo shows a woman looking adoringly on her baby, who rests in her lap. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu
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Healthy Birth—and Then What?

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Women in sub-Saharan Africa who give birth in health care facilities may not always receive high quality postpartum care