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Sustaining Maternal Health Care

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Nalini Visvanathan is an independent researcher and reproductive health advocate living in the Washington, DC; she is a co-editor of the Women, Gender and Development Reader.

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Argues that a core question for sustainable development is maternal health care

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Visvanathan, N. Sustaining Maternal Health Care. Development 54, 252–254 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.11

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