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Profiles of Maternal and Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings: Conflict in Syria

As Omar Robles of the Women’s Refugee Commission explains, “When women and girls are displaced from their homes, the rigid, gendered expectations associated with motherhood and caregiving travel with them. Displacement doesn’t put a halt to maternal health needs or risks, it exacerbates them.”