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Preventable Deaths: Maternal Health in Kenya

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Image by Paul Nevin. Kenya, 2014.
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Kenya continues to lose 7,000 mothers to preventable deaths each year. If the solutions are known...

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Hadija Ali Abdullah, 18, in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Image by Paul Nevin. Kenya, 2014.

Every year, Kenya loses thousands of mothers in preventable deaths. Two Kenyan doctors reflect on their government's attempt to create free maternity services in public facilities. Marie Stopes Kenya, a family planning NGO, supports programs to provide women with control over their fertility.

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