Saving mothers and newborns in Afghanistan

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Almost half of all deaths of women age 15-49 in Afghanistan result from complications during pregnancy and childbirth

Dressed in scrubs, pink vinyl aprons, caps, and the occasional surgical mask, midwives-in-training hustle between beds in the delivery room at the Herat maternity hospital in western Afghanistan. The country holds the second-highest maternal death rate in the world, after Niger.
Almost half of all deaths of women age 15-49 in Afghanistan result from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these deaths could be prevented with increased access to maternal health

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