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Zambia’s effort to lower maternal mortality includes maternity shelters outside hospitals where rural women can wait for delivery. But as women in one shelter attest, the walks are long and the waiting is hard. Many still skip regular checkups.
Zambia’s 14-percent female parliament makes it a regional laggard and leaves women in politics struggling against social disapproval, including by other women.
People living with HIV face an additional risk of getting tuberculosis because of weakened immune systems, poverty and malnutrition. HIV-positive women are especially susceptible because they care for TB patients here.