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USAID and the Ministry of Public Health are training health care workers and rehabilitating clinics and hospitals. Other programs are helping to immunize more than two million Afghan children against childhood diseases.
One in three women in Afghanistan dies during her pregnancy or while giving birth. To counter this, women throughout the country are receiving training as traditional birth attendants.
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"The women in our village are dying," said one of the older men from Shaik Ali District. Razia Naeem Khliqi, a nurse midwife and master-trainer for community health workers, leaned toward him, listening carefully to his tired yet determined voice. Razia speaks several languages and has delivered hundreds of babies and helped thousands of women. Now she is working with USAID to train women to be community health workers and midwives.
Photo: Susan T. Wood/Management Sciences for Health |
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"This is not a time to weep, but to work. If we continue to be sad and depressed, who is going to take care of us and our children? We have responsibilities." |
Afghanistan's child mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. Diarrhea, pneumonia, polio, cholera and tuberculosis are just a few of the diseases threatening children around the country. Educating mothers and vaccinating children are two major steps towards making sure children have a chance to grow up and enjoy the new life their parents are building for them.
Photo: M. Lueders/USAID |
The reconstruction of major and secondary roads allows women and their families to travel more safely and quickly to markets, health clinics and schools.
Photo: Nitin Madhav/USAID |
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