Beautiful Family

Maithabeleng Maneela (36) a HIV positive woman in front of her house in the mountain village Boema, close to the remote village Bobete in Lesotho. She lives together with her husband and six children and is visited daily by PIH community health workers and staff.

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Maternal Mortality Reduction Project with PIH

Lesotho Health

In the small southern African country of Lesotho, high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity threaten the country’s young mothers. Lesotho is one of the few countries in the world where the number of women dying of maternal causes has increased over the last decade. Many of these women, especially in the mountains of rural Lesotho where Partners In Health works, die of causes that could be prevented if they had access to skilled delivery assistance and emergency obstetric care.

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