Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Years of isolation and war in Afghanistan, has led the infant mortality rate to be the highest in the world, and the maternal mortality ratio is the second highest. The lifetime risk of maternal death is 1 in 6, which means one woman dies every 27 minutes.
Since 2004 however, over 2,000 midwives have been trained in newly established midwifery schools, that have been supported by the NGO Jphiego.
As part of a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase the number of midwives providing health care across Afghanistan, community leaders are asked to help identify possible candidates and participate in selecting the student midwife. It’s an endorsement of a young woman’s potential and a commitment by the community to support her work and improved health care for residents.
Caption: Midwife Trainees listen to a theoretical lesson at the Midwifery Training College at the Ghazenfer health Sciencs Institute in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Midwife Trainees practise their skills in a practical lesson at the Midwifery Training College at the Ghazenfer health Science institiute in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A community Health Worker, gives iron tablets to an expectant mother in the village of Aquachanoy near Jawjzan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
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Community Midwife Sadiqa Hosseini, weighs a pregnant young woman at a community health centre in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Community midwife, Sadiqa Hosseini, examines a woman who is pregnant in her home in the village of Foladi, near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Community Midwife Sadiqa Hosseing, measures the stomach of a pregnant young woman at her home in the village of Foladi, near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Woman giving birth in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
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A traineed midwife, who has been undergoing midwifery training in Bamyan examines a placenta to see if it is intact before throwing it away in the maternal health unit of Bamyan Provincial Hospital, Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
A midwife, who trained at the Midwifery Training College in Kabul that is supported by Jhpeigo, takes the pulse of a woman who has recently given birth in the Mallilai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Women in the burkas look at a newborn baby in the maternity unit at the Provincial Hospital in Jawjzan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
A premature baby lies in the special care Maternity Unit at the Malilai Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
A trainee Midwife, who has been training at the midwifery college that is supported by Jhpeigo in Jawjzan, is shown by the head midwife how to teach a woman to breast feed in the maternity unit in the Provincial Hospital in Jawjzan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Sadiqa(C) hold her baby Soraya, and shakes hands with Sadiqa Hosseini, the community midwife, at their home in the village of Foladi, in Bamyan, Afghanistan. Sadiqa has come to examine Sadiqa and make sure that the newborn baby is well, as well as provide health education and family planning advice.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
One month old baby Soraya is examined by Sadiqa Hoseini, a community midwife who has attended the midwifery training college in Bamyan, on the floor while her mother talks to her, at their home in Foladi, near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Community Health Worker (L) Ozara Husseini talks to Najiba, who has five children, about the advantages of family planning and Najiba's decisions to start taking the pill at their home in Katasank near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Community midwife, Sadiqa Hosseini, fills in a family planning information sheet for one of her patients at the Community Health Centre in Foladi near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Community midwife, Sadiqa Hosseini, holds up an educational picture book at a health education meeting for women at the Community Health Centre in Foladi near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Women and their children listen to a health education talk given by the community midwife, Sadiqa Husseini in the Community Health Centre in the village of Foladi, near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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Jhpiego, Afghanistan
June 2010
Flags blow in the wind at a graveyard near to the village of Foladia near Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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