Combating maternal mortality

Tetanus is a swift and painful killer disease that kills thousands of newborns and women every year. When women are given two doses of tetanus immunization they are protected from the disease for three years. Five doses protect them for life. A recent campaign in Yemen aimed to reduce the number of cases of maternal and neonatal tetanus by immunizing women of child-bearing age. © UNICEF Yemen/2010/Rasha Al-Ardi

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