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| Nurse in Zambian clinic takes a woman's blood pressure. |
| photo by Rose Hoban, North Carolina Public Radio |
In Zambia, the number of women who die during pregnancy or childbirth is 60 to 70 times higher than it is in the United States. Many of those deaths happen because women desperate to end an unwanted pregnancy turn to untrained providers because they can’t obtain safe abortion services or they simply don’t know safe abortion is legally permitted in Zambia.
As part of a North Carolina Public Radio, WUNC, series, North Carolina Voices, Global Health Connections, health reporter Rose Hoban traveled to the Zambian capital of Lusaka to spend time with health-care workers who work with Ipas, and are trying to reduce the rate of maternal deaths in their country by providing reproductive health care, including safe abortion and family planning services.
Her report sheds light on the challenge of providing safe reproductive health care for women in a country where resources are limited and more than half of all Zambians live on less than one dollar a day.
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