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Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest rates of maternal, infant and child mortality, with 699 deaths per 100,000 births.

The UN estimates that a woman dies every two hours during pregnancy or childbirth in Afghanistan. A pilot project for young midwives is now intended to provide a sign of hope in the Taliban-run country.

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Afghan woman are traveling to the provincial capital to train as midwives for two years before returning to their homes. Maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan are extremely high.

At least 10 employees of a gold mine died and eight were injured in a traffic accident on March 15 in Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province.

Afghanistan on March 13 kicked off a nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign for children under the age of 5, the office of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan told RFE/RL.

In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care. "When the roads are blocked of course there is no means of transportation, people even use donkeys to move patients to the clinic centres, but sometimes there is...

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield FOLADI VALLEY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mounta...

In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistans Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care.

FOLADI VALLEY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care. | 05:37am