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EPISODE · Sep 12, 2017 · 23 MIN

Condom Lifesavers and Voices for the Voiceless

from People Fixing the World · host BBC World Service

Each year around 100,000 women die due to heavy bleeding after giving birth. But help is at hand from an unexpected source: condoms. World Hacks goes to a maternity hospital in Kenya to speak to the medical staff using this super-cheap kit that is saving lives. Also on the programme, the US start-up that is asking volunteers to donate their voices, then transforming them into personalised, digital voices for people with degenerative diseases.Reporters: Harriet Noble and Amelia Martyn-Hemphill Presenter: India RakusenImage: Midwife Anne Mulinge / Credit: BBC

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