Margaret Wanjiru would rather forget the experience of having her first baby at one of the public hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
"I remember going to the hospital in 2001. I was in pain, like most of the other women, but we were made to sit on a wooden bench and were not allowed to go into the labour ward without paying," Wanjiru recalled.
Once in the ward, there were a lot of insults: "You are asked to spread your legs ‘like you did for your husband'," she said.
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