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One out of every 10 couples in Nigeria uses contraception - but in Jigawa, a rural state in the north I visited, the rate is 1%, although services are now being provided here that did not exist four years ago.
Evidence published in The Lancet suggests providing more contraception around the world could save 100,000 lives every year, by stopping many women from dying in childbirth.
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