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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Yagana Mohammed sits inside the UNFPA-supported reproductive health clinic at the Muna Garage IDP camp, after receiving a contraceptive implant as part of her family planning care. The clinic offers essential services to displaced women, promoting safe reproductive choices and maternal health in crisis-affected communities.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Yagana Mohammed sits inside the UNFPA-supported reproductive health clinic at the Muna Garage IDP camp, after receiving a contraceptive implant as part of her family planning care. The clinic offers essential services to displaced women, promoting safe reproductive choices and maternal health in crisis-affected communities.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
A UNFPA health professional attends to a woman who has just delivered her baby at the Women exit the UNFPA-supported reproductive health clinic called Integrated Maternal Health Facility and Women and Girls Safe Space at the Muna Garage IDP camp after attending educational sessions on maternal health and family planning. These community-focused lectures aim to empower displaced women with knowledge about their health and well-being.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
A UNFPA health professional attends to a woman who has just delivered her baby at the Women exit the UNFPA-supported reproductive health clinic called Integrated Maternal Health Facility and Women and Girls Safe Space at the Muna Garage IDP camp after attending educational sessions on maternal health and family planning. These community-focused lectures aim to empower displaced women with knowledge about their health and well-being.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
A UNFPA health professional attends to a woman who has just delivered her baby at the Women exit the UNFPA-supported reproductive health clinic called Integrated Maternal Health Facility and Women and Girls Safe Space at the Muna Garage IDP camp after attending educational sessions on maternal health and family planning. These community-focused lectures aim to empower displaced women with knowledge about their health and well-being.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Young student nurses at the Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
'Difficult choices': aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Staff at a UN-run clinic in country's north-east worry about growing funding gaps amid dismantling of USAID.
Nurses attend to pregnant women at Yerwa Primary Health Centre in Shehuri South. The facility provides essential maternal healthcare services to women in the community, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth.
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'There's no other solution': Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government's failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone's throw from parliament in Warsaw.
Located a stone's throw from parliament and the headquarters of the ruling Civic Coalition, the centre is a direct challenge to the country’s near total ban on abortion.
Natalia Broniarczyk (40), Justyna Wydrzynska (50) and Kinga Jasinska (45), founders of Abortion Dream Team and idea initiators of the Abortion Center in Warsaw prepare the space for the opening next morning. The location is kept secret until last moment.
Offices of the Polish Parliament, located just on the opposite site of the street are reflecting in the center’s windows.
Warsaw, Poland, 06.03.2025
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'There's no other solution': Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government's failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone's throw from parliament in Warsaw.
Located a stone's throw from parliament and the headquarters of the ruling Civic Coalition, the centre is a direct challenge to the country’s near total ban on abortion.
Anna Pieta (43) (right), the Abortion Center coordinator and Justyna Wydrzynska (50), one of the Abortion Dream Team founders in the Abortion Center, the day before its opening.
Warsaw, Poland, 06.03.2025
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'There's no other solution': Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government's failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone's throw from parliament in Warsaw.
Located a stone's throw from parliament and the headquarters of the ruling Civic Coalition, the centre is a direct challenge to the country’s near total ban on abortion.
Kinga Jelinska (45) and Justyna Wydrzynska (50), co-founders of Abortion Dream Team and initiators of the Abortion Center in the center of Warsaw, finalizing renovations the day before its opening.
Warsaw, Poland, 06.03.2025
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'There's no other solution': Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government's failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone's throw from parliament in Warsaw.
Located a stone's throw from parliament and the headquarters of the ruling Civic Coalition, the centre is a direct challenge to the country’s near total ban on abortion.
Anna Pieta (43), the Abortion Center coordinator, shows and tries on pro-abortion socks that, among other accessories, will be sold at the center to finance abortions and the center.
Warsaw, Poland, 06.03.2025
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'There's no other solution': Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government's failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone's throw from parliament in Warsaw.
Located a stone's throw from parliament and the headquarters of the ruling Civic Coalition, the centre is a direct challenge to the country’s near total ban on abortion.
Natalia Broniarczyk (40), Justyna Wydrzynska (50) and and Kinga Jelinska (45), founders of Abortion Dream Team and idea initiators of the Abortion Center in Warsaw, pose for a photo in the center the day before its official opening.
Warsaw, Poland, 06.03.2025
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'There's no other solution': Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government's failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone's throw from parliament in Warsaw.
Located a stone's throw from parliament and the headquarters of the ruling Civic Coalition, the centre is a direct challenge to the country’s near total ban on abortion.
Marta Kostiv (34) is a mural artist. She is painting the mural “I’m helping in Abortions” designed by the feminist artist, Ola Jesionowska for the abortion center opened by Abortion Dream Team in the center of Warsaw.
Warsaw, Poland, 06.03.2025
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'Pregnancy is not a disease': why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system.
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died due to pregnancy-related complications, a slight improvement on the previous year.
The causes of death included severe haemorrhage, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion and obstructed labour. Doctors and activists say high maternal mortality rates reflect a lack of trust in a broken public healthcare system.
Torkwase Umoru (26) shows the scar from last year’s cesarean section and this year’s double colostomy that she went through last month.
She was pregnant, and the fetus died, so she first went to a private clinic where, after the termination was performed, she developed severe complications. Her viscus was perforated during the procedure, causing the enteric contents to leak into the peritoneal cavity. She developed sepsis and, during weeks spent in a hospital, dealt with suicidal thoughts. She doesn’t want to have more children after the experience. Lagos, Nigeria, 21.12.2023
(Posed portrait after a long interview, when Tokwase showed me her scars. Consent granted by Tokwase. Her last name hidden at her request.)
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'Pregnancy is not a disease': why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system.
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died due to pregnancy-related complications, a slight improvement on the previous year.
The causes of death included severe haemorrhage, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion and obstructed labour. Doctors and activists say high maternal mortality rates reflect a lack of trust in a broken public healthcare system.
Damilola Ayomide story, her littlme chemist and her house
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'Pregnancy is not a disease': why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system.
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died due to pregnancy-related complications, a slight improvement on the previous year.
The causes of death included severe haemorrhage, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion and obstructed labour. Doctors and activists say high maternal mortality rates reflect a lack of trust in a broken public healthcare system.
Damilola Ayomide story, her littlme chemist and her house
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Victoria Mbah (49) the founder of Trust and Support Foundation works in the office of the foundation in Ota, Ogun state, Nigeria. 08.12.2024
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Adijat Adejumo (39), an auxiliary nurse walks towards her small chemist shop in Ota. Ogun state, Nigeria, 06.12.2023
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Sticker informing about the helpline number where women can call seeking help when they are experiencing gender or sexual violence, or when they need contraceptives or safe abortion seen in one of the stores in Ota community. Ogun state, Nigeria, 06.12.2023
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Adijat Adejumo (39), an auxiliary nurse and a member of safe abortion network of women sits in her small chemist shop in Ota. Ogun state, Nigeria, 06.12.2023
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
On the first Saturday of December during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence an annual March of No Tolerance, initiated by Dr Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, foundation the Women at Risk International Foundation (Warif) walks the streets of Lagos Islands. 02.12.2023, Lagos, Nigeria
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Vanessa (24) (name changed) awaits surgery in The Maternity Emergency Ward of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Lagos. She was admited the day before with post abortion sepsis, abdominal swallowing and possible bowel perforations after undergoing a clandestine abortion 12 days earlier. Lagos, Nigeria, 01.12.2023
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Vanessa (24) (name changed) awaits surgery in The Maternity Emergency Ward of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Lagos. She was admited the day before with post abortion sepsis, abdominal swallowing and possible bowel perforations after undergoing a clandestine abortion 12 days earlier. Lagos, Nigeria, 01.12.2023
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The fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma.
Mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines used to induce abortion safely are both legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women's lives during obstetric complications.
Zara (18) (right) and Faith (18) (left) met at the Alabaster Jar Foundation shelter for “abandoned teenage moms” in Lagos. They were both convinced not to have an abortion and promised help by the Christian foundation, which shelters pregnant teenagers until the second month after delivery. Then girls and their newborns are encouraged to reconnect with their families or left to find a different accomodation. Zara and Faith are both rape survivors, both were sexual assaulted since early age, first by members of their closed communities. Both got pregnant and were rejected by their families. After leaving the foundation they become homeless and found shelter in a house of Zara’s extended family. They however have only one change of clothes and wrap themselves and children in fabric, waiting for the clothes to dry after washing them every few days. Faith daughter is currently sick. Lagos, Nigeria, 20 November 2023
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'Pregnancy is not a disease': why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system.
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died due to pregnancy-related complications, a slight improvement on the previous year.
The causes of death included severe haemorrhage, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion and obstructed labour. Doctors and activists say high maternal mortality rates reflect a lack of trust in a broken public healthcare system.
Doctors and nurses of the morning shift at the emergency unit of Lagos Island Maternity Hospital
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'Pregnancy is not a disease': why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system.
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died due to pregnancy-related complications, a slight improvement on the previous year.
The causes of death included severe haemorrhage, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion and obstructed labour. Doctors and activists say high maternal mortality rates reflect a lack of trust in a broken public healthcare system.
Lawal Arinola being brough up to the surgery room on stretchers. Doctors already put a lower part of shock
garmet, used to stop bleeding and direct the flow of blood to essential organs.
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'Pregnancy is not a disease': why do so many women die giving birth in Nigeria?
More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system.
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020, about 82,000 Nigerian women died due to pregnancy-related complications, a slight improvement on the previous year.
The causes of death included severe haemorrhage, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion and obstructed labour. Doctors and activists say high maternal mortality rates reflect a lack of trust in a broken public healthcare system.
Aisha Samuel (22) receives an anasthasia injection before an emergency ceasarian section that she had in
Lagos Island Maternity Hospital.She was earlier transferred with severe preeclampsia after collapsing and going
to convulsions in her family house in Meiran popular area. Eclampsia and preeclampsia are the leading causes of
maternal deaths in the hospital. It can lead to kidney and lungs malfunction, hear failure, stoke, blindness and in
the worst case, death. Lagos, Nigeria, 14.11.2023
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Unrecognised and underestimated: the fight to get Australian women proper care after miscarriages.
Researcher Jade Bilardi, Co-founder of the Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition (which is about to be launched) and the family rescue dog Hazel at home in Woodend North of Melbourne, Australia.
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Unrecognised and underestimated: the fight to get Australian women proper care after miscarriages.
Researcher Jade Bilardi, Co-founder of the Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition (which is about to be launched) at home in Woodend North of Melbourne, Australia.
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Unrecognised and underestimated: the fight to get Australian women proper care after miscarriages.
Researcher Jade Bilardi, Co-founder of the Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition (which is about to be launched) at home in Woodend North of Melbourne, Australia.
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'It is for us, who will give birth here': the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone's new maternity unit
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry.
In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu.
Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal Center of Excellence, are emerging - and about 60% of those wearing hard hats on site are women. Most are working in construction for the first time and are conscious they are helping to build the region's future.
The building will serve the Koidu government hospital next door, and promises a change for the region and country, which in 2019 had one of the highest rates globally for maternal mortality with a healthcare system blighted by civil war and Ebola, which killed 7% of its healthcare workers. Despite an improvement in maternal deaths from 1,165 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 717 per 100,000 in 2019, the rate remains high.
The image features Isata Dumbuya, the Director of Reproductive Health, alongside the expecting mothers during a visit to Welbodi Clinic. . - Welbodi Clinic in Kono, Sierra Leone
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'It is for us, who will give birth here': the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone's new maternity unit
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry.
In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu.
Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal Center of Excellence, are emerging - and about 60% of those wearing hard hats on site are women. Most are working in construction for the first time and are conscious they are helping to build the region's future.
The building will serve the Koidu government hospital next door, and promises a change for the region and country, which in 2019 had one of the highest rates globally for maternal mortality with a healthcare system blighted by civil war and Ebola, which killed 7% of its healthcare workers. Despite an improvement in maternal deaths from 1,165 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 717 per 100,000 in 2019, the rate remains high.
The Delivery center within Welbodi Clinic in Kono, Sierra Leone . - Welbodi Clinic in Kono, Sierra Leone
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'It is for us, who will give birth here': the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone's new maternity unit
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry.
In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu.
Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal Center of Excellence, are emerging - and about 60% of those wearing hard hats on site are women. Most are working in construction for the first time and are conscious they are helping to build the region's future.
The building will serve the Koidu government hospital next door, and promises a change for the region and country, which in 2019 had one of the highest rates globally for maternal mortality with a healthcare system blighted by civil war and Ebola, which killed 7% of its healthcare workers. Despite an improvement in maternal deaths from 1,165 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 717 per 100,000 in 2019, the rate remains high.
Construction site of the Maternity Center of Excellence (MCOE), where significant efforts are underway to build a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to providing exceptional maternal and neonatal care. . - Maternal Center of Excellence located in the Kono region, Sierra Leone.
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'It is for us, who will give birth here': the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone's new maternity unit
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry.
In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu.
Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal Center of Excellence, are emerging - and about 60% of those wearing hard hats on site are women. Most are working in construction for the first time and are conscious they are helping to build the region's future.
The building will serve the Koidu government hospital next door, and promises a change for the region and country, which in 2019 had one of the highest rates globally for maternal mortality with a healthcare system blighted by civil war and Ebola, which killed 7% of its healthcare workers. Despite an improvement in maternal deaths from 1,165 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 717 per 100,000 in 2019, the rate remains high.
The image presents a cross-sectional view of female workers at the construction site, actively engaged in various tasks while reviewing the construction plan. . - Maternal Center of Excellence located in the Kono region, Sierra Leone.
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'It is for us, who will give birth here': the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone's new maternity unit
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry.
In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu.
Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal Center of Excellence, are emerging - and about 60% of those wearing hard hats on site are women. Most are working in construction for the first time and are conscious they are helping to build the region's future.
The building will serve the Koidu government hospital next door, and promises a change for the region and country, which in 2019 had one of the highest rates globally for maternal mortality with a healthcare system blighted by civil war and Ebola, which killed 7% of its healthcare workers. Despite an improvement in maternal deaths from 1,165 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 717 per 100,000 in 2019, the rate remains high.
John Chew, the site supervisor, and the project head, standing infront of the construction site in kono, Sierra Leone. . - Maternal Center of Excellence located in the Kono region, Sierra Leone.
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'It is for us, who will give birth here': the women breaking barriers to build Sierra Leone's new maternity unit
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry.
In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its capital, Koidu.
Behind a steel fence, the rooms of a new maternity centre, the Maternal Center of Excellence, are emerging - and about 60% of those wearing hard hats on site are women. Most are working in construction for the first time and are conscious they are helping to build the region's future.
The building will serve the Koidu government hospital next door, and promises a change for the region and country, which in 2019 had one of the highest rates globally for maternal mortality with a healthcare system blighted by civil war and Ebola, which killed 7% of its healthcare workers. Despite an improvement in maternal deaths from 1,165 per 100,000 live births in 2013 to 717 per 100,000 in 2019, the rate remains high.
The image displays a cross-sectional view of female workers engaged in various construction tasks at the site. . - Maternal Center of Excellence located in the Kono region, Sierra Leone.
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'Headaches, organ damage and even death': how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk.
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia.
Aneire Khan, a researcher in environmental epidemiology, who in 2008 carried out the first research into the correlation between high blood pressure-related conditions among pregnant women and salt intake from drinking water sources.
Khan conducted a second study in 2011 with Imperial College London and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, which found the salt intake among women in Dacope was well above the World Health Organization's recommended levels.
Water salinity and Reproduction
People gather at the local bazaar to buy distilled water. Dacope, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2024.
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'Headaches, organ damage and even death': how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk.
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia.
Aneire Khan, a researcher in environmental epidemiology, who in 2008 carried out the first research into the correlation between high blood pressure-related conditions among pregnant women and salt intake from drinking water sources.
Khan conducted a second study in 2011 with Imperial College London and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, which found the salt intake among women in Dacope was well above the World Health Organization's recommended levels.
Water salinity and Reproduction
A portrait of Sapriya Rai (23) at the Upzilla Health Complex. Dacope, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2024.
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'Headaches, organ damage and even death': how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk.
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia.
Aneire Khan, a researcher in environmental epidemiology, who in 2008 carried out the first research into the correlation between high blood pressure-related conditions among pregnant women and salt intake from drinking water sources.
Khan conducted a second study in 2011 with Imperial College London and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, which found the salt intake among women in Dacope was well above the World Health Organization's recommended levels.
Water salinity and Reproduction
Sapriya Rai (23) in her last stage of pregnancy at the Upzilla Health Complex. Dacope, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2024.
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'Headaches, organ damage and even death': how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk.
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia.
Aneire Khan, a researcher in environmental epidemiology, who in 2008 carried out the first research into the correlation between high blood pressure-related conditions among pregnant women and salt intake from drinking water sources.
Khan conducted a second study in 2011 with Imperial College London and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, which found the salt intake among women in Dacope was well above the World Health Organization's recommended levels.
Water salinity and Reproduction
A pond containing less salinity that villagers use to collect drinking and cocking water. Dacope, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2024.
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'Headaches, organ damage and even death': how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk.
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia.
Aneire Khan, a researcher in environmental epidemiology, who in 2008 carried out the first research into the correlation between high blood pressure-related conditions among pregnant women and salt intake from drinking water sources.
Khan conducted a second study in 2011 with Imperial College London and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, which found the salt intake among women in Dacope was well above the World Health Organization's recommended levels.
Water salinity and Reproduction
Women use tube-well water containing salinity as there is no other option in their village. Dacope, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2024.
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'Headaches, organ damage and even death': how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk.
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia.
Aneire Khan, a researcher in environmental epidemiology, who in 2008 carried out the first research into the correlation between high blood pressure-related conditions among pregnant women and salt intake from drinking water sources.
Khan conducted a second study in 2011 with Imperial College London and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, which found the salt intake among women in Dacope was well above the World Health Organization's recommended levels.
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Containers filled with non-salinity water in a familyÕs backyard for their daily use. Dacope, Khulna, Bangladesh, 2024.
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