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16 May 2016
With a midwife’s help, quadruplets are safely delivered in remote Afghanistan
It was midnight in the remote Afghan village of Balakoh, and 37-year-old Zainab was entering her tenth hour of labour in her mountainside home. With no skilled birth attendant present and her pain steadily increasing,...
12 May 2016
“I don’t remember the first time my husband beat me,” says Iryna, age 33. “Only the pain, shame and tears.” But she remembers the last time. As the now two-year old conflict in eastern Ukraine raged on, the already...
10 May 2016
Improving access to family planning in Haiti amidst the threat of Zika virus
Reaching the health clinic closest to Baie D’Orange, a remote, landlocked town in the southeast of Haiti, requires walking two hours over poor roads to the town of Seguin. As a result, women and girls living in this...
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