Liberia's Ebola Widows Struggle to Provide for Their Families

Huddled together in the bedroom of their mud-brick home in rural Liberia, Marthaline Sweet's children stare at her hungrily as she picks up her 1-month-old baby. Sweet, an Ebola survivor and mother of five, chokes back tears as she recalls contemplating an abortion after the virus killed her husband -- leaving her alone to fend for their children. "We don't have a good home, we have no food and we must beg other people for help," Sweet said, gazing at the railroad...

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