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University of Northern Iowa graduate student Phales Milimo, of the women's and gender studies program.

UNI student seeks to bridge the healthcare gender gap

It was the middle of the afternoon when Phales Milimo saw a pregnant woman go into labor and collapse on the sidewalk.

She was in the Sinazongwe District in southern Zambia, just a five-hour drive from her hometown of Lusaka, the country’s bustling metropolitan capital. Technically, she hadn’t left her country, but it felt like she was in a different world.