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Pregnancy and childbirth a major cause of death among Afghan refugee women.(Brief Article)
1902 MAR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A survey of Afghan refugees done before the events of September 11, 2001, published in the February 23, 2002, issue of the Lancet (p. 643), highlights how a lack of access to health care for women of reproductive age results in pregnancy and childbirth being major risk factors for death among these Afghan women.
There are an estimated 3.6 million Afghan refugees, the largest refugee population in the world. Linda Bartlett and colleagues from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did a study among Afghan refugees in Pakistan to investigate the burden of deaths among women due to maternal causes, risk factors for death among women of reproductive age, preventability of deaths, and barriers to health care faced by these women.
A census of 12 Afghan refugee settlements was done from January 1999 to August 2000, in which all deaths were recorded. Deaths among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) were further investigated by verbal autopsy interviews with family members. The census identified 134,406 Afghan refugees and 1197 deaths; a crude mortality rate of 5.5 per thousand population. Among the 66 deaths in women of reproductive age, there were 27 deaths (41%) due to maternal causes - a greater proportion than any other cause. Sixteen liveborn and nine stillborn infants were born to women who died of maternal causes; six of the liveborn infants died after birth. ...
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