Women wait for their pre-natal consultations in the Birao District Hospital in Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)
Pregnant women face added health risks when they flee Sudan to the Central African Republic — where women are 40 times more likely to die in childbirth than in the U.S. There, they find a fragile healthcare system impacted by aid cuts.
A nurse gives painkillers to patient Amna Adam Hessen, whose baby was delivered stillborn the previous day, at the Birao District Hospital in the Central African Republic, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Amna Adam Hessen is comforted by her family at her bedside as she suffers from malaria in the Birao District Hospital in Central African Republic, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Women wait outside the delivery room at the Birao District Hospital in the Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)A woman has her first pre-natal consultation with nurse Delphine Zanabe at the Birao District Hospital in the Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)A woman holds her baby outside the registration center for new refugees on the outskirts of the Korsi Refugee Camp in Birao, Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)A woman has her first pre-natal consultation with nurse Delphine Zanabe at the Birao District Hospital in Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Women wait for their pre-natal consultations in the Birao District Hospital in Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)A pharmacist hands pregnant women painkillers from boxes at the pharmacy of the Birao District Hospital in the Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Women and children fetch water at dusk in the Korsi Refugee Camp in Birao, the Central African Republic, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Maude Ahmad Fadala rocks her baby inside the Korsi Refugee Camp, where she gave birth in the street in Birao, Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Women fetch water at dusk in the Korsi Refugee Camp in Birao, Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)A nurse gives painkillers to a patient at the Birao District Hospital in the Central African Republic, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)Women wait for their pre-natal consultations in the Birao District Hospital in Central African Republic, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)
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