BBC investigates Afghan maternal deaths after US aid cuts

Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan correspondent

Aakriti Thapar / BBC Abdul Wakeel stands looking at the camera while holding his daughter and with his young son standing next to them, against a rural backdrop and blue sky in Shesh Pol in the north-eastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.Aakriti Thapar / BBC

When Shahnaz went into labour, her husband Abdul called a taxi to take them to the only medical facility accessible to them.

“She was in a lot pain,” he says.

A 20-minute…

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