FotoWitness Interviews:
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Niger Delta Environmental Disruption Report
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Rakhine State, Myanmar
Huicholes del Tabaco- The Tobacco People
Pro Kremlin activist vandalized a photo exhibit at Andrei Sakharov center in Moscow.
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Children Of Drug-Addicted Mothers
Dead Cities In Syria Maciej Moskwa
Political Prisoners Of A Revolution
Mental Illness In Afghanistan: Invisible Consequences Of War
CHILD REFUSE - Landfill In Nicaragua
Women Of Western Nepal Caught In Unjust Traditions
Option Of Last Resort. Iraqi Refugees In The United States
Persecution Of Homosexuality In Uganda
Never Again: Giving Voice To Survivors Of The Rwandan Genocide
Maternity In Africa
Interview by Paolo Patruno
Every year in Sub-Saharan Africa 280,000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth and, for every woman who dies, many others suffer injury, infection or disability.
Every year 1,5 million African children are left without a mother.
A mother's death is a human tragedy, affecting families and communities. Her death endangers the lives of a surviving newborn and any other young children. A mother's death makes it harder for the family to obtain life's necessities and escape the crush of poverty.
A great many of these deaths are preventable, when women have access to quality prevention, diagnostic, and treatment services. Most maternal death and morbidity can be prevented when pregnancy and childbirth are attended by skilled health professionals (nurses, midwives or doctors).
These services often are not available for women in poor and remote communities, far from the nearest health services. Moreover, reproductive health issues affect mostly young women and girls: in many communities girls still marry when very young and information and advice about contracepton is poor or non-existent.



A nurse using a razor blade to remove sutures from belly of a woman who had a cesarean section.





A mother can give only some fruit to her 5 kids for lunch. Food is never enough for everybody, and she is pregnant again, waiting for another baby.