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Articles by Chris Brazier

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Why Are So Many Women Still Dying in Childbirth?

Chris Brazier March 17, 2009 Chris Brazier

Habibu is lying on matting on the mud floor of her hut. The contractions are coming thick and fast now. The pain is intense, but she draws comfort from the memory that, the previous three times, this agony gave way to the peaceful, exhausted bliss of holding her baby in her arms.

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