Below is a guest blog post on maternal mortality by the Pulitzer Center's Kate Steger published this morning on One.org.
Guinea-Bissau: Dying for Treatment
Last month the British medical journal The Lancet reported that in the span of three decades, the number of women dying in childbirth or during pregnancy worldwide decreased substantially.
The Dying for Life Gateway is a response to the global maternal health crisis. The Gateway examines motherhood as a continuum that encompasses reproductive health, family planning, pregnancy, childbirth and infant and maternal mortality.
Standing in the only operating room in the only medical hospital in all of Guinea-Bissau, Marco Vernaschi watched a nurse take an unsterile needle out of her pocket and, without anesthetic, suture
Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region on Earth, is a place where more than 600,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every year due to lack of proper care and only 30 percent of the population
The Women, Children, Crisis Gateway illuminates the adversity and outright crimes endured by women and children living in developing countries. The Gateway provides compelling material related to the role of women in society and the impact of industrialization and international development on women, children, and families.
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Marco Vernaschi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1973, and he's currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's currently working on a large, long-term project about the phenomenon of child witches,...