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DRC: "I Got on the Motorbike With the Midwife"

March 5, 2012

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) makes it a priority to provide life-saving, emergency obstetric care in both acute and chronic humanitarian crises. Fifteen percent of all pregnancies worldwide will experience a life-threatening complication. The most critical moment is delivery: the majority of maternal deaths occur just before, during, or just after delivery, often from complications that cannot be predicted. It is at this point that the provision of quality obstetric care is vital to save women's lives. The majority of maternal deaths are avoidable when access to emergency obstetric care is ensured.

 

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Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, International Women's Day, Maternal Health, Insight, Women's Health

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MSF midwife, Rebecca Ullman, talks about the difficult decisions she had to make in Ivory Coast.

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