When Mothers Die

Throughout the developing world, women die in childbirth for lack of the simplest things: soap, clean sheets, and trained birth attendants. Model Liya Kebede is part of the new movement to prevent these deaths.

Liya Kebede

Published Oct. 16 2009 4:20AM EDT

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One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything. I recently attended two remarkable gatherings that are helping shine the spotlight where it is desperately needed—on our global maternal-mortality crisis.

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When Mothers Die

Throughout the developing world, women die in childbirth for lack of the simplest things: soap, clean sheets, and trained birth attendants. Model Liya Kebede is part of the new movement to prevent these deaths.

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When Mothers Die

Throughout the developing world, women die in childbirth for lack of the simplest things: soap, clean sheets, and trained birth attendants. Model Liya Kebede is part of the new movement to prevent these deaths.

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