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

16 May 2016
An expectant mother receives a check up at the Qaramat Family Health House in Afghanistan's central highlands. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Acceptance of family planning grows in Afghanistan, but myths linger

23 November 2015
Nargis, a midwife, provides family planning counselling in Herat, Afghanistan. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ahmadullah Amarkhil
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Phone line answers burning questions of Afghan youth

09 November 2015
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
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Snatched from her home, an Afghan girl's road to recovery

21 April 2015
Zarmina and her mother. Some members of their family have blamed Zarmina for the abduction, but her mother has stood by her. © UNFPA Afghanistan
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Midwives help lower Afghanistan's towering maternal death rate

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

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

22 May 2014
<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>
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Rewarding the Heroic Work of Midwives in Afghanistan

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

20 September 2011
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
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Local Women’s NGOs Play Crucial Role for Afghan Refugee Women

05 November 2001
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