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Midwives help lower Afghanistan's towering maternal death rate

Fahima Nazary, head of midwifery at the CURE Hospital in Kabul, looks over a mother and newborn. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Rada Akbar
  • 07 January 2015
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Conducting a Social, Demographic and Economic Survey of Afghanistan

Training enumerators is one of many steps in the complex process of data collection.
  • 29 June 2012
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A new lease on life for women living with obstetric fistula in Afghanistan

<p>Sharifa (left) at the Malalai Maternity Hospital talking to the doctor that treated her fistula, Dr. Pashtoon Kohistani. <i>Photo credit: Zainab Hiadary/UNFPA Afghanistan</i> </p>
  • 22 May 2014
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Rewarding the Heroic Work of Midwives in Afghanistan

Students in the Community Midwives Education Programme, supported by UNFPA, in Kabul.Photo: Zubaida Akbar
  • 20 January 2012
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Midwives Are Key to Safe Deliveries for Afghani Women

While access to reproductive and maternal health care is expanding, local custom kept Fereshta, like many women in Afghanistan, from seeking timely emergency obstetric care. Photo:UNFPA/Afghanistan/Zubaida Akbar
  • 20 September 2011
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Local Women’s NGOs Play Crucial Role for Afghan Refugee Women

  • 05 November 2001
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Kabul Maternity Hospitals Lack Equipment and Supplies; Help from UNFPA Is on the Way

  • 19 February 2002
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Afghan NGOs Provide Maternal Care Despite Shortage of Skilled Staff

  • 19 February 2002
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As Many Afghans Head Home, UN Assists Refugees Who Remain in Pakistan

  • 31 March 2002
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Assisting Births Around the Clock: Emergency Mobile Hospital To Open in Kabul

  • 14 August 2002
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