Helping the mothers of Ethiopia

 AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, Ethiopia, HEALTH
Nov 172009
 

22,000 women and girls die in Ethiopia each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. This article on UNFPA tells how the Huffington Post World Editor, Hanna Ingber Win travelled to Ethiopia to report on the various obstacles women face there and what is being done to improve their chances of making it to motherhood.

You can read about Five Ways of Looking at Maternal Health: The Mothers of Ethiopia on the UNFPA website.

There is a five part series of articles on the site:

Mothers of Ethiopia

Part I: Zemzem’s Journey

Part II: Escaping Child Marriage

Part III: Battling Pregnancy Complications

Part IV: Inside a Rural Post

Part V: Government Looks for Solutions to Dire Shortage of Doctors

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