No Woman, No Cry | Sabina Faiz Rashid Ph.D.

Sabina Faiz Rashid, PhD is an Associate Professor at BRAC University in Bangladesh.

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, where nearly 80 percent of all women give birth at home without a skilled attendant, we are introduced to Monica, a young pregnant mother living in the slums who is reluctant to seek out care. Although she is part of BRAC's Manoshi project aimed at bringing skilled providers into the slums, when Monica does go into labor she calls a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) instead of the skilled community midwife. The TBA is not equipped to handle the complication Monica experiences and so a panic-laden middle of the night trip to the city's large and chaotic Dhaka Medical College Hospital ensues.

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• Bangladesh
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