Inter Press Service: Afghan ‘Torn’ Women Get Another Chance
“…Alongside the health center in Badakhshan — 290 km northeast of Kabul — Malalai Maternity Hospital is the only health center in Afghanistan with a section devoted to coping with a disease [obstetric fistula] that is seemingly endemic to the most disadvantaged members of the population: women, young, poor, and illiterate…” (Zurutuza, 9/2).