improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian …

key to saving women at risk of dying due to pregnancy and childbirth complications. In a society where women seek care … rural areas, where women are usually excluded from access to skilled and emergency health care. In 2003 for example, most … Afghan women delivered at home, and fewer than 10 percent of births were attended by a skilled provider. Very few midwives …