Sub-Saharan Africa, home to the world’s fastest-growing population, accounts for 70% of global maternal deaths. Each year, about 180,000 women on the...

Women are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth in Central African Republic than in the United States, according to the United Nations.

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,…