UNITED NATIONS, New York – According to an African proverb, “the sun should not rise or set twice on a labouring woman”. Unfortunately for an estimated half a million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Arab States region and Latin America and the Caribbean, childbirth lasted much longer than this proverb warns against – with devastating consequences.
UNITED NATIONS, New York – According to an African proverb, “the sun should not rise or set twice on a labouring woman”. Unfortunately for an estimated half a million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Arab States region and Latin America and the Caribbean, childbirth lasted much longer than this proverb warns against – with devastating consequences.
UNITED NATIONS, New York – According to an African proverb, “the sun should not rise or set twice on a labouring woman”. Unfortunately for an estimated half a million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Arab States region and Latin America and the Caribbean, childbirth lasted much longer than this proverb warns against – with devastating consequences.