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.
Published June 17, 2010
Hanna Ingber Win explains her reporting project in this photo montage.
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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...
