Miscarriages and malnourishment: The perils of pregnancy in Yemen | Maternal health

Abeir Mohammed* sits at the foot of her mother’s mud-brick house in Sawan, east of Yemen‘s capital Sanaa. She struggles as she searches for the words to describe the loss of her unborn child due to toxoplasmosis in July, this year.  Usually preventable, toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by a parasite often found in cat faeces or undercooked meat, but that can also be transmitted through