Celebrated New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has traveled extensively through West Africa as the benefactor of the newspaper’s “Win-a-Trip” contest, a program that gives students the opportunity to join him on an international reporting trip. Today, his column focused on the broken maternal health system he has observed in Sierra Leone, the country with [...]

Tanzania remains dangerous for young moms — A new report on the State of the World’s Children lists Tanzania among the world’s countries with the highest rates of maternal mortality. Among other findings, it shows that pregnant girls under age 18 are five times more likely to die due to complications.
UNICEF releases maternal health survey [...]