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AFGHANISTAN - CRITICALLY SERIOUS MATERNAL MORTALITY

PHOTO GALLERY - OXFAM

In Afghanistan, a woman dies every 27 minutes thanks to pregnancy-related complications.

Where commitments to meet the Millennium Development Goals have been met, millions of people are now better off. But the pace of progress remains dangerously slow, and while some countries race ahead, others are moving backwards.

Afghanistan is one of the countries which is unlikely to meet the target. A woman dies there every 27 minutes thanks to pregnancy-related complications. There are 1,600 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births but in the remote mountainous province of Badakhshan the rate is 6,500 per 100,000 – the highest recorded rate of maternal mortality in the world.

Oxfam took top photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina to Badakhshan, where she met and photographed the families behind the statistics and the doctors, midwives and traditional birth attendants trying to save women’s lives.

lia Siamoy breast feeds her month old baby boy Hokima, in the remote mountainous province of Badakshan, an area with the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world. t: /Oxfam

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