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With a midwife’s help, quadruplets are safely delivered in remote Afghanistan

An expectant mother receives a check up at the Qaramat Family Health House in Afghanistan's central highlands. © UNFPA Afghanistan

16 May 2016

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Acceptance of family planning grows in Afghanistan, but myths linger

Nargis, a midwife, provides family planning counselling in Herat, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil

23 November 2015

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Phone line answers burning questions of Afghan youth

Young people in Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan. A UNFPA-supported hotline is helping Afghanistan's youth learn about their health and rights. © UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein

09 November 2015

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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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