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Blog politique au Senegal shares a story of a woman who died in childbirth, a fate shared by far too many women in Senegal: “The small crowd listened to the midwife explain she did all that she could, that it was the will of God; but at the hospital she would have been well taken care of…I stayed inside [the health center] for a good while, choked up with anger.”
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