Pregnant women face double threat in Ebola crisis countries

From ONE Thu Oct 23 2014, 13:32:35

By Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.  Today, I call for urgent funding to meet the reproductive health needs of women and mothers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. As these nations fight the devastating impact of Ebola, pregnant women face a double...

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