'Dying every two hours': Afghan women risk life to give birth

Under the Taliban government, women have been squeezed from public life and had access to education restricted, threatening the future of the female medical field in a country where many families avoid sending women to male doctors. "Access to antenatal and postnatal care for a woman was (always) extremely complicated. It's even more complicated today," said Filipe Ribeiro, MSF director in Afghanistan. This is due to measures taken by authorities as well as the failings of the healthcare system -- including structural support from foreign donors.