Every year about 70,000 women die due to pregnancy and childbirth related causes in India.
Dying for Life
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June 24, 2010 /
The Economist
OUTSIDE the main hospital in San Cristóbal de las Casas, women in traditional multicoloured garb queue up to see a doctor. Many are pregnant or carry infants on their backs. |
June 17, 2010 /
Untold Stories
Hanna Ingber Win explains her reporting project in this photo montage. |
 Freelance journalist Hanna Ingber Win's photos, from the tea gardens of Assam, India. Assam has India's highest maternal mortality rate. |
June 11, 2010 /
CBC Radio
If Sulekha Lohar had only had access to an ambulance instead of that handcart. If the clinic just had a doctor, instead of just empty shelves. |
June 9, 2010 /
True/Slant
I had written about child marriage before. When I went to Ethiopia, I visited a program for girls who had fled early marriage in their villages and ended up in the capital Addis Ababa. |
 Growing up in a small village in northeastern India, Hasina Khatun spent her days helping her aunt around the house and playing with her siblings. |
 Efforts to control tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant forms of the disease face extra hurdles in Mexico's poorer states. Samuel Loewenberg reports from Chiapas, southern Mexico. |
May 14, 2010 /
Untold Stories
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro sheds light on the challenges Nigeria faces in its effort to reduce material mortality. |
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May 14, 2010 /
The Lancet
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May 14, 2010 /
The Lancet
Growing up in the mountain village of San Juan Quiahije, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Maricela Zurita Cruz saw from an early age the special health burdens that affect women there. |
May 12, 2010 /
Untold Stories
In the U.S. 1 in 4,800 women die in childbirth. In Nigeria it is 1 in 18. |