At the time this project was carried out, Ella was employed by Doctors of the World as a senior policy and advocacy officer. For her Churchill Fellowship, she visited Sweden in 2019 conducting 20 interviews with 31 stakeholders representing the voluntary sector, healthcare practitioners and health policymakers.
This article provides a summary of her key findings on the impact of Swedish health access policies for undocumented migrants with a focus on access to maternity care and maternal health outcomes.
In 2011, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women became the first UN human rights body to state that countries have an obligation to guarantee women’s timely and non-discriminatory access to maternal health services.
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