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Afghanistan's high maternal mortality rate -27 June 08

Afghanistan had the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world after Sierra Leone. One in every 9 Afghan women die during or shortly after giving birth, this makes it a death every 21 minutes. In the US and Japan one in over 12,000 mothers die in childbirth. Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reports from a hospital in Nangarhar Province, east of the capital Kabul.

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