No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

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