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Bangladesh: A Remarkable Reduction in Maternal Mortality
Ebola's Effect in Pregnant Women:

“Some 800 women die every day due to pregnancy-related causes, the vast majority in developing countries, because they could not get the care they needed.”

An MSF OBGYN said, “I can’t tell you the number of times I saw a patient in Sierra Leone or on subsequent MSF assignments and thought: “If only I could have seen this woman just a few hours or a day earlier, this disaster would not have happened.”

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