Intimate moments: the lives of Afghan women

She had the face of a girl, but the eyes of a middle-aged woman. Sitting in white pyjamas on a hospital bed in Fayzabad, the capital of the Afghan province of Badakhshan, 25-year-old Rahima Aziz told me how her baby died. Like so many other women in Afghanistan, she had tried to give birth at home in her remote village, with no clinic or midwife nearby. After 8 hours in a borrowed car on unpaved mountain roads, she finally reached the provincial hospital in Fayzabad but her baby had already died. “I carried the baby for 9 months”, she said, “And now it's gone. It's the third time this happens.” Mehr

 

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