In India the incidence of women dying while giving birth is among the highest in the world. How poverty, early marriage and poor infrastructure make childbirth fraught with risk.
Maternal Mortality in Assam's Tea Gardens
Published July 20, 2010
Assam has the highest maternal mortality rates in India. Although the Indian government has increased it efforts to decrease maternal deaths, thousands of children still lose their mothers in childbirth.
This segment was produced by Outer Voices. Support for Hanna Ingber Win's reporting was provided by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. This Outer Voices podcast series was made possible with the support of the Schulz Donor Advised Fund of Sonoma County.
Women and rural families' attitudes toward family planning are slowly changing in India, and public health experts in Assam say they are seeing an increase in the use of contraceptives.
Boat clinics in India provide family planning services, immunizations, antenatal care to pregnant women and basic healthcare to socially and geographically isolated villages along the Brahmaptra Ri
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Hanna Ingber is GlobalPost's Editor of Breaking News and Social Media. She recently returned from India, where she covered Mumbai for GlobalPost.
Ingber was formerly the World Editor of the...
