FEATURE-Desperate Kenyan women risk last-resort abortions

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27703332.htm

NAIROBI, March 28 (Reuters) - Turn right near the tall acacia tree at the crossroads and a narrow dirt road leads you to Mama Alice's tin-roofed health clinic.

Mama Alice, a stout woman in her 50s, says bad things happen in the backstreets of Mukuru, a squalid shantytown that is home to about 40,000 on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Many women are dying after unsafe abortions by quack doctors in the slum. Mama Alice says she treats two or three women every week for abortion-related complications.

"They try anything," she says, looking out over a narrow street where ragged, half-clad children play amid the stench of burning rubbish and rotting vegetables.

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1. Mukuru..

I thought that was a town in South Dakota.