00:01In Northeast Nigeria, women face one of the world's highest risks of dying in childbirth, as insecurity and the collapsing health system push care further out of reach.
00:13Haisha Mohamed, a mother of twins, says the lack of hospitals, doctors, and even safe routes to the state's capital, Maiduguri, makes maternal care nearly impossible.
00:24Lack of good hospitals is our problem, as well as lack of workers, medication, and doctors that can treat us.
00:39A lack of access to road from Gunduga to Maiduguri in the night time to visit the hospital is also a problem.
00:46According to the World Health Organization, Nigeria recorded at least 75,000 maternal deaths last year, more than a quarter of the global total.
00:59In Borno State, years of Boko Haram violence have forced clinics to shut down, while doctors earn less than $150 a month.
01:08The reproductive health needs for women and girls is very critical when you come to Northeast, and specifically in the different locations.
01:20So people in these areas find it difficult to have access to service, because the services are either difficult to reach them,
01:29or even where the services are available, maybe because it's a garrison town, where it is trenched by the military.
01:35With U.S. aid cuts and family planning budgets slashed by 97% this year, health workers warn more lives will be lost on less urgent resources, which Nigeria is now east.
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