The Perils of Childbirth in Afghanistan

Mother and Child
Siamoy feeds her one-month old baby in Badakhshan, where a harsh landscape and lack of infrastructure have given rise to an astonishingly high rate of deaths during childbirth. In this distant corner of the world, for every 100,000 babies born, 6,500 women will die.

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