Sierra Leone First Lady discusses work to improve maternal mortality

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NPR's Tell Me More on Friday interviewed Sierra Leone First Lady Sia Nyama Koroma about her work aimed at improving maternal health in her country. Koroma was in New York attending the African First Ladies Fellowship Program "that brings together Western European and American first ladies with their African counterparts for an exchange of ideas and best practices," according to the program. Since implementing free health care, "Sierra Leone has seen a 214-percent increase in the number of children under five getting care in health facilities and a 61-percent decrease in mortality rates in difficult pregnancy cases in health clinics," Tell Me More reports, statistics that Koroma said are due to "the participation of all of us" (Martin, 9/23).

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