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Maternal mortality doubles in Ebola outbreak zone as mothers avoid hospitals

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Francine, a UNFPA-supported midwife at the health center in the Kigonze displacement camp, holds a newborn delivered safely at the camp clinic, during an outbreak of Ebola - Junior Mayindu/UNFPA DRC

The number of women dying in childbirth has doubled in the region at the centre of the Ebola outbreak as expectant mothers avoid hospitals, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said. Read More

 

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