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A woman holds her newborn in a nursery at the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan on Apr 3, 2013, which had one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates then at 2,054 per 100,000 live births. Photo shows a woman looking adoringly on her baby, who rests in her lap. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

Healthy Birth—and Then What?

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Women in sub-Saharan Africa who give birth in health care facilities may not always receive high quality postpartum care