Entries Tagged as ‘birth’

October 1, 2008

Giving Birth in Afghanistan

Oxfam took Alix Fazzina, a top photojournalist, to Badakhshan, Afghanistan, where she met and photographed the families behind the statistics and the doctors, midwives and traditional birth attendants trying to save women’s lives. In Afghanistan, a woman dies every 27 minutes due to pregnancy-related complications. There are 1,600 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births but in [...]