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Page last updated at 06:29 GMT, Monday, 26 October 2009

Tackling Ethiopia's 'human emergency'

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It is being called a human emergency by the World Health Organisation.

Health ministers from around the world are meeting in the Ethiopian capital to tackle the ill-health, and too often the death, of many women from childbirth.

More women are now dying in labour than in war, and it's almost always preventable.

Pascale Harter reports from the capital, Addis Ababa.

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