Health worker training programs working to improve women's health in Afghanistan

Jun 29 2012

"Women in Afghanistan are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than from a bullet or a bomb, according to Save the Children," CNN reports, adding that is "a grim statistic the women here are trying to change." In the article and an accompanying video, the news service describes a midwife-training program at the Ghazanfar Institute of Health Sciences in Kabul and "a pilot program in Guldara District [that] teaches volunteers how to become community health workers." However, "sustaining and spreading initiatives such as this one will take even more investment from the international community," CNN writes (Jamjoom, 6/27).