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Population: 2.5 million
- Women literary rate: 1-5%
- 90% of women are abused, beaten and seriously injured.
- Every 28 minutes an Afghan woman dies while giving birth. 452 women a year in Kandahar & 672 in Helmand.
- Women are forbidden to see male physicians.
- Many pregnant women receive little or no prenatal healthcare.
- Average mortality age is 42 years old.
source: unicef.org, ciminweb.org
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Promoting higher education, AFAW will give an Afghan woman a scholarship for medical school.
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Qualified women from the region of Kandahar and Helmand will be sent to medical school internationally,
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With the high abuse rate for women in this area, and the minimal medical care, AFAW with conduct human rights counseling.
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