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Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday announced that the government has begun offering no-cost medical treatment to pregnant and breastfeeding women and children younger than age five, the AP/San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The African nation’s maternal and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world, according to the AP/Union-Tribune…

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