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A pregnant woman carries a carton of milk on her head at a market in Lagos in 2003. The number of women dying from pregnancy-related complications in Nigeria is akin to a plane crashing every day, but the crisis gets less noticed amid pandemics such as AIDS and malaria, activists say.

(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)

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