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What's holding back Ghana's progress in reducing maternal mortality

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imageYear-on-year change in Ghana's maternal mortality rate has been slow.James Akena/Reuters

Ghana has made significant progress in reducing the number of mothers who die from complications during labour and after childbirth in the last 25 years.

Between 1980 and 2008, Ghana successfully cut maternal deaths from 731 to 409 per 100,000 pregnancies. The...

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Abbott leaves Turnbull in Q A limbo

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imageCommunications Minister Malcolm Turnbull is unsure if he will be able to appear on Q&A, after Tony Abbott banned ministers from appearing on the program. AAP/Stefan Postles

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has continued the retribution against Q&A beyond what had seemed agreed within government last week, when it was thought enough had been done.

I...

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