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![[Guinea-Bissau] These women shared two to a bed in the maternity of ward of Guinea Bissau's main hospital, the Simao Mendes Hospital, in Bissau. [Date picture taken: 05/24/2006]](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/20066723.jpg.webp?itok=AL_N6SBM "These two women had to sleep two to a bed in the maternity ward of Simao Mendes Hospital, Bissau")
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