{"id":57991,"date":"2024-04-16T06:16:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=57991"},"modified":"2024-04-16T06:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T06:16:43","slug":"pregnancy-is-not-a-disease-why-do-so-many-women-die-giving-birth-in-one-of-africas-richest-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/16\/pregnancy-is-not-a-disease-why-do-so-many-women-die-giving-birth-in-one-of-africas-richest-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pregnancy is not a disease\u2019: why do so many women die giving birth in one of Africa\u2019s richest countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24782\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/black-baby.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1ipjagz\">D<\/span>espite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/16\/pregnancy-is-not-disease-why-do-so-many-women-die-giving-birth-in-nigeria-one-of-africas-richest-countries\">Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Maternal-deaths.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57993,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57991\/revisions\/57993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}