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Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan 2007

Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A female doctor attempts to give air to a newborn baby at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A woman lies on a bucketful of blood inside the delivery room at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A woman who gave a birth, at left, lies on a bed inside the delivery room at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A nurse at right treats a newborn baby at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Female doctors perform cesarean section at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 13, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Female doctors perform cesarean section at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 13, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A mother walks with a toddler at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Mothers of patients worryingly wait outside the delivery room at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Pregnant women inside the crammed delivery room which has four beds (one not shown) at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A premature baby was born after the cesarean section at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Students at Community Midwifery Education Program observe the mock delivery by an instructor, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Female doctors perform cesarean section at the Faizabad Provincial Hospital, Faizabad in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • An emergency patient from Argu district, who traveled four hours by car, is being treated inside the delivery room at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Friday, May 11, 2007. She later had a miscarriage. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • An emergency patient from Argu district, who traveled four hours by car, is being treated on the floor of the maternity ward at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Friday, May 11, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Nurses treat the emergency patient from Argu district, who traveled four hours by car, on the floor of the maternity ward at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Friday, May 11, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Family members of a pregnant woman from Argu district, four hours from Faizabad, carries her to the delivery room at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Friday, May 11, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A pregnant woman leaves the delivery room as she bleeds at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 10, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A woman gives a birth to a boy at the delivery room at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 10, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A pregnant woman agonizes as she feels the abdomen pain inside the delivery room at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 10, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A pregnant woman enters the delivery room at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 10, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A cleaner, at right, mops the delivery room as a pregnant woman at left awaits her delivery at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 10, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A female doctor, at right, stands inside the delivery room after she removed a placenta from a mother at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 10, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • A nurse at left tries to take care of the baby shortly after a pregnant woman gave a birth at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 9, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • Dr. Zahira, at right, carries the baby shortly after a pregnant woman gave a birth at Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 9, 2007. Faizabad Hospital's maternity unit has the most advanced facility in Badakshan. However, it also suffers from lack of facilities and staff especially female doctors. Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes. A UN report released in 2000 indicates that the national MMR in Afghanistan was 1,900 per 100,000 live births, whereas it was 17 in the United States. Ragh district in Badakshan province showed the highest mortality risk ever recorded in human history, with 64% - more than half of women - of reproductive age died during 1999 and 2002. The causes of deaths were analyzed mainly in two parts: direct and indirect. Direct causes include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, cardiomyopathy, sepsis, obstetric embolism, and pregrancy-induced hypertension; and the indirect causes were tuberculosis, malaria, and obstetric tetanus. Geographical and economical factors also contribute to high mortality in a place like Badakshan where most people have limited access to transportation thus making it harder for women to reach proper health care centers.
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  • An Afghan woman in donkey travels with her sons in a mountainous route in Badakshan province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 19, 2007.
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