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Challenges: Women have trouble accessing care for their newborns as well as facing problems such as poverty, food insecurity and a lack of transport. Photo: File
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Female & Guardian | Newborns still dying needlessly in South Africa

Budget cuts, staff shortages and socio-economic barriers continue to undermine efforts to improve neonatal care and reduce infant mortality

  • Aarti Bhana
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