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Hard labour: tradition coupled with poverty compel women give birth alone.

Publication: WE!
Publication Date: 01-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hard labour: tradition coupled with poverty compel women give birth alone.(Movements Within)

Article Excerpt
Maimona is a woman of indeterminate age. We're not talking of someone who has a timeless beauty. We're talking of someone who had been battered by a brutal life that her face and body look worn out and belie her age.

Maimona has given birth 16 times, and she faced each labour alone.

"I would never allow another person to be present during birth," she said, defiantly. "This is a big shame in our society. Each time, I have wrapped my baby in swaddling clothes by myself."

Maimona's situation is one that many women in Afghanistan experience. According to a recent study by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), up to 90 percent of all women in Afghanistan give birth unattended by medical professionals.

Still, she has been more fortunate than many. Afghanistan has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, with an average of 1,600 deaths per 100,000 births. This is still far lower than the northeast, mountainous province...

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