The New Hope Movement (NHM) aims to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa. Presently, the number of maternal deaths that occur in Sierra Leone are so vast that it has been deemed “a human rights emergency” by Amnesty International. Other international organizations have gone further and labeled pregnancy “a death sentence.” In Sierra Leone, 1 in 8 women die while giving birth and in some villages the death rate is as high as 1 in 4. Essentially a woman in Sierra Leone is approximately 200 times more likely to die giving birth than an expecting mother in any developed nation. In a country of nearly five million people and with a dire need for health care, there are only five specialized obstetricians and very few hospitals.
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