Saving mothers' lives: things can go wrong.
One of the goals of Sierra Leone's primary care programme, established in the 1980s, was to reduce maternal mortality by 30% by the end of the twentieth century, but no significant progress has been made in this direction. The reasons are examined below in the light of a study conducted in one of the country's Chiefdoms.
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Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown.
D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008428:Maternal Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012424:Rural Population; D012807:Sierra Leone; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires