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In an unprecedented move today, millions of midwives, nurses and doctors across the world delivered a message to G8 leaders to take urgent action to prevent women dying needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth. With more than half a million maternal deaths every year, health workers have joined forces to ask world leaders to put the issue of maternal mortality at the top of the agenda at next month’s G8 Summit.

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