Hermina lives in the Central African Republic, Murjanatu in northern Nigeria, and Sabera is a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Though they live thousands of kilometres apart, the struggles they have faced simply for being pregnant bring them closer together.
In these countries, and more around the world, our colleagues see that women share the same challenges in giving birth.
🔴 Long distances to health centres
🔴 Cultural barriers to care
🔴 Lack of skilled birth attendants
While the UN warns that a woman dies every 2 minutes from complications of childbirth or pregnancy, a midwife working with us says that these deaths, “are not inevitable tragedies – most could be prevented with timely care”.
New mothers, as well as our colleagues caring for them, explain the shared challenges of giving birth:
https://msf.me/shared-challenges-birth