The World Factbook. Improving the health of women and children in Afghanistan. The health system in Afghanistan continues to face many challenges.
However, growing numbers of trained health-care workers are gradually helping to deliver improved health care to more and more people. More specifically greater numbers of skilled female health-care workers are still needed to meet the health-care needs of women and children in the country. In recent years, WHO has contributed to the establishment of training courses for midwives in Afghanistan. As a result, since 2003, more than 2 700 midwives have been trained. Afghanistan. Remote remedies: healthcare in Badakshan Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Spotlights: Rebuilding Afghanistan's Health System. Rebuilding Afghanistan's Health System View all spotlights A Community Midwifery Education (CME) course in Faizabad, Badakhshan.
In Afghanistan, AKF supports CME programmes in Bamyan, Faizabad and Kabul.Photo: AKDN / Sandra CalligaroAmong Afghan women of childbearing age who die each year, almost half die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.