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Global Voices | Struggling to Save Mothers in Afghanistan | PBS

Duration: 00:38
Program: Global Voices #502
Broadcast Date: May. 13, 2012

Nearly one in seven Afghan women dies in childbirth. Follow an Afghan American filmmaker and her father to his native Afghanistan, where he brings desperately needed medical attention and expertise to the women most susceptible to maternal mortality.

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