May 11, 2008
The Washington Post
Keeping New Mothers Alive In Haiti and Rwanda, Reducing Tragedy in Childbirth
By Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl
"Obscene" is still the word that comes to mind when we think of maternal mortality -- and it has been almost 25 years since we first witnessed death in childbirth. In 1983, as students in one of central Haiti's fetid clinics, we prepared to celebrate a birth. Although we'd just met the young woman about to become a mother ...
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