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.
Updates
Op-Ed from Thoraya Obaid
October 1st, 2008
Everyday, over 1,400 women and adolescent girls die needlessly from giving birth and 40,000 more suffer injuries and disabilities that can last a lifetime. Complications of pregnancy are the leading cause of death for young women aged 15 to 19 in the developing world.
USAID Blocks Contraception Distribution to Marie Stopes International
October 1st, 2008
LONDON – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) instructed governments in several African countries to discontinue the provision of US-funded contraceptive commodities to Marie Stopes International (MSI), one the world’s leading family planning organizations.