'Dying every two hours': Afghan women risk life to give birth
According to the latest World Health Organization figures, from 2017, 638 women die in Afghanistan for every 100,000 viable births, compared with 19 in the United States.
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In this photograph taken on December 8, 2023, an Afghan woman holds the hand of her newborn child at the Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-run maternity hospital in Khost. AFP
By NewVision Reporter
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Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specialising in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common