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Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The female sector is generally marginalized in the process of development. It is a patriarchal world.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

Ramesh Balam

Ramesh Balam — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Jayashree

Jayashree — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t get why any woman would wanna go through this :s