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Haitian midwives

Photographer Roger Lemoyne travelled to Haiti to meet a group of midwives who are helping to improve the survival rates for expectant mothers and their babies.

By Roger Lemoyne

Updated October 10, 2018

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Haitian midwives Photographer Roger Lemoyne travelled to Haiti, the nation with the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the Western hemisphere, to meet a group of midwives who are helping to improve the survival rates for expectant mothers and their babies. In this exclusive audio slideshow, he takes us inside the hospitals and mobile clinics where these amazing midwives are working miracles every day
	Credits: Photos and narration by: Roger Lemoyne
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