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.
India Casts a Light on Mothers Long in the Dark
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.
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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...