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Youth Perspectives
How access to early antenatal care stops maternal deaths
Anja Smith looks at how South Africa can reduce its high maternal death rate by improving antenatal services.
Anja Smith is a post-doctoral fellow at Research on Socio-Economic Policy at the Economics Department of Stellenbosch University.