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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Eromo Egbejule in Maiduguri

‘Difficult choices’: aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria

A nurse and patients
A nurse and patients at Yerwa health centre, which supports safe pregnancies and childbirth. Photograph: Fati Abubakar/The Guardian

At a UN-run antenatal clinic in a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram, the colours stand out like the bellies of the pregnant women. Abayas in neon green, dark brown and shades of yellow graze against the purple and white uniforms of nurses attending to them in the beige-orange halls of the maternal healthcare facility.

Within the clinic in Maiduguri in north-east Nigeria, midwives and nurses are handing out free emergency home delivery kits, “dignity kits” for sexual abuse survivors and reusable sanitary pads to curb exploitation of young girls who cannot afford them.

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