Explain the societal and cultural factors that may contribute to the high childhood and matemal mortality rates in sub- Saharan Africa.

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, low wages, poor livelihood, poor nutrition, poor health service location, inadequate workers in the health field, poor road network, and other factors put women at high risk during pregnancy [9, 10]. Many pregnant women seek orthodox systems or the traditional health system (herbal medicine) in rural areas due to their condition [11]. Women’s choice to use maternal health service from orthodox and/or traditional herbal medicine poses a challenge to the efforts of government and its partners in maternal mortality reduction through the use of maternal health care services

Africans learned what the europeans wanted them to learn. instead of learning about african history and current information that could and would them they learned solely what europe wanted them to. and not everyone received the same education, some received better and others none.

Ibelieve it's the pacific islands