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Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan
Grace Calderon , Quezon City: Oct 4 2008
Made Popular Oct 5 2008
Afghanistan :
According to the UN Development Program, the Afghan fertility rate is second highest in the world at 7.5 children per woman, every 28 minutes a woman dies in Afghanistan during childbirth, and 54 percent of Afghan children are born stunted.
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Jaiyant Cavale
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Jaiyant Cavale Oct 5 2008
Bangalore, India
The female sector is generally marginalized in the process of development. It is a patriarchal world.
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Grace Calderon
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Grace Calderon Oct 5 2008
Quezon City, Philippines
According to UNICEF, forty per cent of women in Afghanistan are married before the age of 18; one third of these women have children before reaching adulthood. Many pregnant women are deprived of basic health care and only 11 per cent of deliveries take place in a health facility.

Yes, women are marginalized. And that’s primarily a gender issue.
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Grace Calderon
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Grace Calderon Oct 5 2008
Quezon City, Philippines
Kabul’s Malalai Maternity Hospital, one of the busiest in Afghanistan delivering 80 to 100 babies a day, is working to ensure that more women live to see their children grow up.

Since the fall of Taliban in 2001, UNICEF has provided much-needed support to this hospital through facility renovation, capacity building, training for doctors and midwives and providing supplies and medicine. They have also instituting a wide-ranging safe motherhood information campaign in collaboration with community groups.

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan_39281.html
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Ramesh Balam
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Ramesh Balam Oct 5 2008
Pune, India
My mother used to say that if a mother survives after delivering a child; its her second birth. But then she had seen worst or no health care. Afghan situation reminds me of that.
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Jayashree
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Jayashree Oct 7 2008
bangalore, India
I don’t get why any woman would wanna go through this :s
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