Nigeria offers free caesareans to save mothers’ lives – but it’s not enough

By Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Associate professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Itohan Osayande, Teaching Fellow in Public Health, University of Greenwich

Nigeria’s government launched an initiative in 2024 offering free emergency caesarean sections to poor and vulnerable women, in a plan to bring down the high number of mothers dying in childbirth.

Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, a maternal and newborn health researcher, and Itohan Osayande, a…

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~	Breast cancer screening is ripe for change. We need to assess a woman’s risk – not just her age

~	Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved

~	Will $1 on your ticket help save Australian live music? A UK model is much more ambitious

~	Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far

~	How eating undercooked pork could leave your body and brain riddled with tapeworm larvae

~	East of Empire: partitioning of India and Palestine unleashed the violent conflict that continues today

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