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Thank you for reporting on maternal mortality. It is an underlying reality that is not often mentioned. Giving birth is more dangerous than having an abortion.

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Nigeria has an official language of English, and the Nigerians here speak English beautifully. Their English language novelists are great. But they have a profusion of local languages and they have much tribalism in th back country.

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Very worthy subject, and good to focus the whole letter on this.

Isn't it remarkable that Africa is the by far most dangerous place to give birth, and the only continent with a growing population.

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With respect to the situation in Sierra Leone, one should definitely note the role of John and Hank Green - the vlogbrothers

John and Hank Green - vlogbrothers https://www.youtube.com/@vlogbrothers

Partners in Health Sierra Leone Fundraiser Announcement https://youtu.be/DwDjsNFHVhQ 4:38 / 15 October 2019

Let's Talk about Money https://youtu.be/sDhpBFDU3ro 5:15 / 19 November 2024

Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn

If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch

If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn

https://www.pih.org/maternal-center-excellence

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And don’t forget the shameful trend here in the U.S.! Significantly worse compared with 2000 - and disproportionately killing women of color (that data not shown here but available from CDC).

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More guns should fix that problem

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