India Casts a Light on Mothers Long in the Dark
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
The mighty Brahmaputra River separates thousands from adequate healthcare facilities in Assam, India.
Assam has the highest maternal mortality rates in India.
Every year about 70,000 women die due to pregnancy and childbirth related causes in India.
Hanna Ingber Win explains her reporting project in this photo montage.
Freelance journalist Hanna Ingber Win's photos, from the tea gardens of Assam, India. Assam has India's highest maternal mortality rate.
If Sulekha Lohar had only had access to an ambulance instead of that handcart.
If the clinic just had a doctor, instead of just empty shelves.
I had written about child marriage before. When I went to Ethiopia, I visited a program for girls who had fled early marriage in their villages and ended up in the capital Addis Ababa.
Growing up in a small village in northeastern India, Hasina Khatun spent her days helping her aunt around the house and playing with her siblings.
Hanna Ingber Win, for the Pulitzer Center
Dibrugarh, India
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research is featuring Hanna Ingber Win's reporting on maternal mortality in India. Below is an excerpt from C-NES website:
One night in late March, about 24 weeks into her pregnancy, Sulekha Lohar woke feeling ill. Sharing a bed with her husband and two young sons, she felt her chest pounding and her legs swell. She...
The Huffington Post has featured Hanna Ingber Win's blog post on maternal mortality in India titled, "India: Three Wives, 10 Kids Is Enough."
The air crackles as a team of medical staff and crew walk across a peanut field, lugging a big generator from their boat into a village of 850 people. Near a collection of thatchroof homes, the crew...
Kate Mitchell of the the Maternal Health task force mentions Hanna Ingber's "India Casts a Light on Mothers Long in the Dark" and Samuel Loewenberg's "The struggle for health in Chiapas" in her blo
After a couple hours of cruising down the Brahmaputra River, the boat clinic arrives at a desolate mud bank. A fisherman nearby dips his pole into the water and pulls up a large net. Two community...
We load up in an SUV and make our way through the streets of Guwahati. It is raining, and much of this major city in northeastern India is flooded. Cars, men pedaling rickshaws and our SUV slowly...
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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...