Authors: Jamila Ahmed Aden, Hinda Jama Ahmed & Per-Olof Östergren
Background: Somali women suffer from one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Somalia characterises a specific low-income country situation with a mix of newly urbanized and nomadic culture combined with a frail health care infrastructure set in a postconflict era. Very little is known about the effects that these contextual factors can have on maternal mortality