The Perils of Childbirth in Afghanistan

Hanifa holds the tool kit that she would bring on her rounds if she could only find the materials to fill it.

Birth Attendant
Hanifa, a midwife, holds the tool kit that she would bring on her rounds if she could only find the materials to fill it. Though she says things have improved — in the past, she used flints for cutting and piles of earth for soaking up blood — it is still hard for her to find plastic gloves, razors and needles in Badakhshan.

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