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MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAIZABAD, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Terribly scared and in tears, forty year old Sangimo lies on the operating table at Faizabad Maternity Hospital. Arriving with breathing difficulties, serious bleeding and in great pain, it took Sangimo 12 hours to travel by jeep from her home in Ishkosham village. At four months pregnant, Sangimo has already experienced four previous miscarriages. Having already tried opium to relieve the pain and Zamj (a local salt rememdy that is used internally) to stop the bleeding, her husband finally brought her on the long journay to Faizabad in fear of her life- his first wife died during childbirth. The family have had to sell all of their green land to make it this far. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

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SANDARA, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.At nine months pregnant, twenty year old Sahliha looks from the window of her husband's house in Sandara village..She knows nothing about what will happen during the delivery. For girls in this remote regoin of Afghanistan, it is shameful to ask their mothers for advice on health or sex issues. The protocol is that they should keep quiet even if they are in pain. She has never seen a birth before before, "Sometimes I'm afraid but I don't know why. Always I'm thinking will I live or die". During her pregnancy, Sahliha has turned to her religion for comfor praying constantly to Allah, "I ask that I will deliver successfully, I will get well as soon as possible and hat my baby has a long life". (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

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SANDARA, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Twelve year old Siamo rummages through a box looking for thread so that she can complete the embriodery that she will sell to raise money for her adopted family..After her mother died in childbirth at just twenty-five years old during the delivery of twins one winter, Siamo and her sister were adopted by their aunt Sabrima. Having never attended school, Siamo spends her days sewing and weaving hankerchiefs or rugs. Last month she was sold for a Jahez, or bride price, of 20,000 Afghanis. Worried about having children herself, she hopes that she can wait a little "My future husband is away in Iran just now. I will see what happens"..Girls such a Siamo have nowhere to turn for advice on health or sex issues. Asking female relatives is shameful and Sabrima is reluctant to talk to her adopted girls for fear of re-kindling memories of their mother's death. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

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SANDARA, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Her face decorated with make-up and wrapped in hand embriodered swaddling clothes, 20 day old Hajira is cradled by her mother Jowhar-Bibi at their home in the remote Sandara village..Two months before the birth, mother of four Jowhar-Bibi became extremely sick. Rushed to the nearest clinic back of a stranger's motorbike after she developed complications during childbirth, she was petrified that she would have to give birth on the road- an event that would bring great shame on a family in Afghanistan. After an uncomfortable journey, Hajira was born assisted by a midwife at the Khourdakon health post. "I didn't even realise that I had delivered because of the pain killers. When my child was crying I couldn't believe it was my child... that I had delivered her". Jowhar-Bibi has been quick to chat to all her neighbours about her experience of child birth- she is the only woman in the village to have accessed medical care in an area where traditional birth attendents and medicines are the norm. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SANDARA, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Orphaned after her mother bled to death during child birth, Hairongul was abandoned at Odganda mosque after relatives refused to look after her..Eventually, Sabrima- a mother whose baby had just died was identified and Hairongul found an adoptive family. Now at 5 years old, she lives with two sisters whose mother also died during delivery. "We have no money but I wanted Hairongul. It was my wish"..In Sandara village, four women have died in child birth in the last year alone. The region has the world's highest rate of maternal mortality. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHAHR-I-BUZORG, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.A young pregnant teenager sits on the carpet as she waits to see a doctor at the Khourdakon Clinic. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

KATUQ, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Fifty year old Gulzaman sits with his orphaned daughter and his son in their home in Katuq village, Badakshan..Four years ago Gulzaman's wife Zakria died during childbirth. During freezing conditions, she spent seven days in pain. "She was crying and making a lot of noise... There was a lot of bleeding. A woman came over to help us but she coudn't do a lot. She wasn't a midwife but when we have a problem like this, then she's the best support we have"..Gulzaman prayed to keep his wife alive but with the mountain passes blocked with snow, there was no chance of any help arriving..Their daughter is now withdrawn since the traumatic death of her mother and cries all the time. Re-married, Gulzaman now has a new son. His daughter is looked after by her grandmother and grandfather. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

KATUQ, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Twenty year old Zhilaykha visits a female village elder at her home in Katuq after suffering from shortness of breath and abdominal pain. Now five months' pregnant, Zhulaykha is expecting her third child in just three years. Old woman are traditional points of referal for pregnant woman in the remote villages of Badakshan where husbands often do not permit visits to health posts or hospitals. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHAHR-I-BUZORG, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Traditional Birth Attendant Hanifa holds her empty tool kit in which she normally keeps basic equipment to assist with child births in Khordakon village. Before her training seven years ago, Hanifa used to use flints for cutting and piles of earth for soaking up blood during the hundreds of births she has assisted. Now she likes to use plastic gloves and sheeting and clean razors and needles but access to these items in this remote region of Badakshan is difficult. "I always reassure the women in delivery but there is nothing I can really do". (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHADASHT, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008One year old Shaola looks up at her mother Bugima in their home in Shadasht village. .Both mother and child are lucky to be alive after Bugima gave birth en-route to the clinic last year. Delivering Shaola behind some rocks on the road, she then had to turn back to the village on foot for 2 hours with the baby still attached to her, wrapped in a blood soaked burka..At more than 8 hours away from the nearest hospital, this remote area of Badakshan close to the Tadjikistan border has the world's highest rate of maternal mortality. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHADASHT, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008Her hands covered in black stain from shelling walnuts, Baguma holds her pregnant belly..Suffering from severe pains and bleeding during her previous delivery, last year Baguma tried to make the two and a half hour journey on foot to the nearest clinic in Wandian. Giving birth behind some rocks on the road, she had to turn back with the new born baby still attached to her, wrapped in a blood soaked burka. Since then, no woman in this remote village will ever dare leave again should they suffer any complications during childbirth. Without access to proper medical care, babies in this remote mountain region are delivered in the home by traditional attendants or women elders. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHADASHT, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.An image of a mother and child on lace covers floor cushions at a house in the remote mountain village of Shadasht, Badakshan. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHAHR-I-BUZORG, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Fifty six year old Zebanisa cares for her orphaned granddaughter Fahima in the one room mud covered house where they live alone in Khourdakon village..Zebanisa's daughter was just twenty-seven when she died during child birth. "She was feeling unwell and in a lot of pain. There was a lot of bleeding but there was nothing I could do- I just had to stand by". Despite finding transport across the the mountains for the seven hour journey to Faizabad Hospital, by the time they reached the city there was nothing that could be done to save her. Fahima's father disowned her, as is the case with children who are orphaned due to maternal mortality- Zebanisa was the only person who stepped in to help. She survives on charity from neighbours. Still in deep shock she feels she has become deply spiritual. "I pray five times a day to Allah. Where else can I turn". (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHAHR-I-BUZORG, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.Siamoy breast feeds her month old baby boy Hokim as she goes to visit her sisters at their home in Khourdakon village. .Situated in the remote mountainous province of Badakshan, the area has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAIZABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.A baby is delivered safely by cesarean section in the operating theatre of Faizabad Maternity Hospital. The hospital is the only medical centre equiped for emergency obstertic care in Badakshan- a remote, mountainous province of Afghanistan that has the world's highest rate of maternal mortality given the lack of access to medical facilities. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAIZABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.During a private consultation, a nurse at Faizabad Maternity Hospital takes the blood pressure of a patient experiencing bleeding at just 4 months pregnant. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAIZABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.A line is put into a women's arm as she suffers from complications during a delivery at Faizabad Maternity Hospital. Pregnant women can travel up to 2 days from the distant mountain villages of Badakshan to access the hospital- by the time they are in labour, it often too late. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAZIABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.Rushed into hospital during a painful delivery, 22 year old Hamina cries on her bed at Faizabad Maternity Hospital. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAZIABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.Rushed to Faizabad's maternity hospital during a long and complicated delivery, 22 year old Hamina sleeps with he new born baby son. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHAHR-I-BUZORG, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.A worried young mother waits to see a doctor at the Khourdakon clinic. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAIZIABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.The wife of a local Mullah waits anxiously ahead of a pre-natal examination at Faizabad Maternity Hospital. The health facility provides the only emergency obstestric care for the whole of Badakshan province in Afghanistan's north east. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

FAIZABAD, AFGHANISTAN- AUGUST 2008.Student nurses training to be midwives take the blood pressure of a patient at Faizabad Maternity Hospital. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

MATERNAL MORTALITY

SHAHR-I-BUZORG, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 2008.Six year old orphan Rohila plays alone in her adopted mother's house in Khourdakon Village..Her mother Gulnama died last year during childbirth at just twenty years old after a long sickness. Rohila was born when she was just fifteen, her subsequent baby died and she was expecting her third. Abandoned by her father, she has been adopted by an elderly family member..Remote and without proper health care, this area of Badakshan has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal Medical center Katsina..Maternity-labour ward..A newborn baby... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal Medical center Katsina..Maternity-labour ward..A nurse is cutting the umbilical cord to a new born baby... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..A new baby born is being weighted at the Katsina General hospital... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal Medical center Katsina..Maternity-labour ward..A mother with her newborn baby twins... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..Portrait of Mario Danjuma, a midwife at the Katsina General hospital... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..Portrait of Halifa (not real name) with her newborn baby..She is 18 years old, the baby came without complications... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Jibia..October-November 2009..Young children collecting water to sell in Jibia...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Jibia..October-November 2009..Young children collecting water to sell in Jibia...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Jibia..October-November 2009..Young children collecting water to sell in Jibia...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..Portrait of Zeinab (not real name) with her newborn baby..She is suffering from Aneamia.... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..Maryam (not real name) lying on the bed after giving birth to her newborn baby..She had a complication during delivery and was bleeding excessively.... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..A newborn baby.... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..Portrait of Malika (not real name) with her newborn baby..She is 26 years old, the baby came without complications... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..Portrait of Halifa (not real name) with her newborn baby..She is 18 years old, the baby came without complications... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..A Midwife is checking at a woman that just gave birth... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Katsina General Hospital..Maternity-labour ward..A Midwife is checking at a woman that just gave birth... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Jibia..October-November 2009..Hadiza's (not real name) hands with traditional herbs to help with giving birth, who are provided by her husband Buzu, a local herbalist at the Jibia market..Hadiza is a traditional birth attendant since 25 years..In northern Nigeria the majority of births accir at home and attended by traditional midwifes like Dudu, most of them have not formal training they bear their practise on experience aquired while assisting pregnant women..Her only tool is a razor blade to cut the baby's umbillical cord. Any infection is treated with local herbs that her husband sells.... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Jibia..October-November 2009..Portrait of Fati with her husband Buzu, a local herbalist at the Jibia market..Hadiza (not real name) is a traditional birth attendant since 25 years..In northern Nigeria the majority of births accir at home and attended by traditional midwifes like Dudu, most of them have not formal training they bear their practise on experience aquired while assisting pregnant women..Her only tool is a razor blade to cut the baby's umbillical cord. Any infection is treated with local herbs that her husband sells.... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Tsanni..October-November 2009..Portrait from Habsatu (not real name), a traditional brith attendant in Tsanni..In northern Nigeria the majority of births occur at home and attended by traditional midwifes like Habsatu, most of them have not formal training they bear their practise on experience aquired while assisting pregnant women..Her only tool is a razor blade to cut the baby's umbillical cord. Any infection is treated with local herbs...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Tsanni..October-November 2009..Portrait from Habsatu's hand with her razor blade, a traditional brith attendant in Tsanni..In northern Nigeria the majority of births occur at home and attended by traditional midwifes like Habsatu, most of them have not formal training they bear their practise on experience aquired while assisting pregnant women..Her only tool is a razor blade to cut the baby's umbillical cord. Any infection is treated with local herbs...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Tsanni..October-November 2009..Portrait from Habsatu (not real name), a traditional brith attendant in Tsanni..In northern Nigeria the majority of births occur at home and attended by traditional midwifes like Habsatu, most of them have not formal training they bear their practise on experience aquired while assisting pregnant women..Her only tool is a razor blade to cut the baby's umbillical cord. Any infection is treated with local herbs...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Tsanni..October-November 2009..Portrait from Baraka at home. She is 30 years old and gave birth to twins, Rokia and Umia 14 days ago..Umia died already from malnutrition after 13 days..Waraka has already lost 6 other children at early age from preventble these diseases: malaria, fever, measles, malnutrition and infections. Shw has given birth to 16 children and lost 6...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Tsanni..October-November 2009..Portrait from Baraka at home. She is 30 years old and gave birth to twins, Rokia and Umia 14 days ago..Umia died already from malnutrition after 13 days..Waraka has already lost 6 other children at early age from preventble these diseases: malaria, fever, measles, malnutrition and infections. Shw has given birth to 16 children and lost 6...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina, Tsanni..October-November 2009..Portrait from Baraka at home. She is 30 years old and gave birth to twins, Rokia and Umia 14 days ago..Umia died already from malnutrition after 13 days..Waraka has already lost 6 other children at early age from preventble these diseases: malaria, fever, measles, malnutrition and infections. Shw has given birth to 16 children and lost 6...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal medical center..A premature baby born in Niger and refered to Nigeria Federal medical center in an incubator at the special baby care unit...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal medical center..Portrait of Aminu (not real names) with her one year old baby Munir suffering from severe malnutrition at the pedriatic ward of the Federal medical center..Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal medical center..Barak (not real name) is one a half year old and suffering from severe malnutrition and admitted at the pedriatic ward of the Federal medical center..His mother Hafsat has other 6 children, Barak is the last one...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal medical center..A nurse is weighting a newly baby born at the Federal medical center...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal medical center..A nurse is washing and dressing a newly baby born at the Federal medical center...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Federal medical center..A nurse iswashing a newly baby born at the Federal medical center...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Jaradua maternal and children Hospital..A mother with her baby with spina-bafida malformation at the special baby care unit..She gave birth at home and then came to hospital to look after her new baby born...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Jaradua maternal and children Hospital..Uleima (not real name) a mother with her premature baby at the special baby care unit. She is practising Kangaroo mother care. She had twins, but lost one of them 3 days after birth...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Jaradua maternal and children Hospital..Uleima (not real name) a mother with her premature baby at the special baby care unit. She is practising Kangaroo mother care. She had twins, but lost one of them 3 days after birth...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Yaradua maternal and children Hospital..Sister Hadiza chiel nursing officer holding a baby with spina-bafida malformation at the special baby care unit..She gave birth at home...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Umaru Yaradua maternal and child Hospital..Aisha (not real names) 21 years old with her new born baby Maymuna, a 10 day old baby with meningitis and fever i at the special baby care unit...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Umaru Yaradua maternal and child Hospital..Maymuna (not real name) a 10 day old baby with meningitis and fever at the special baby care unit...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Umaru Yaradua maternal and child Hospital..Special special baby care unit...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Jaradua maternal and children Hospital..A mother with her baby with spina-bafida malformation at the special baby care unit..She gave birth at home and then came to hospital to look after her new baby born...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Tahiru (not real name), 37 years old with his 3 months baby girl named Binta..Tahiru has lost his wife when she gave birth to Binta 3 months ago in Jibia..The baby is living with Tahiru's sister in Katsina who brest feed her. Tahiru visits them regularly in Katsina...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Jaradua maternal and children Hospital..A mother with her baby with spina-bafida malformation at the special baby care unit..She gave birth at home and then came to hospital to look after her new baby born...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)

CHILD AND MATERNAL MORTALITY

Nigeria, Katsina..October-November 2009..Turai Umaru Yaradua maternal and child Hospital..Aisha (not real name) 21 years old with her new born baby Fatima, a 10 day old baby with meningitis and fever i at the special baby care unit...Every year about 9 million children before the age of 5 die from conditions that can easily be prevented. About 11,000 children are born daily in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of newborn deaths in the whole Africa... (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Pep Bonet / NOOR)