{"id":1460,"date":"2026-07-20T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:12:10","slug":"european-union-afghanistan-has-one-of-the-highest-maternal-mortality-rates-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/european-union-afghanistan-has-one-of-the-highest-maternal-mortality-rates-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union: Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union says that Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world and emphasizes that providing proper healthcare services for mothers and newborns is of particular importance.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 28 Saratan, the European Union wrote on the platform X that it had jointly visited a midwife-managed maternity care center in Logar province with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).<\/p>\n<p>The European Union added that the center operates with financial support from the EU, and trained midwives provide safe services for mothers and newborns there.<\/p>\n<p>Providing prenatal healthcare and care during childbirth are among the measures that can help reduce maternal and newborn mortality.<\/p>\n<p>International health organizations have repeatedly expressed concern about the state of maternal and child health in Afghanistan and have stressed the need to expand healthcare services in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union says that Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world and emphasizes that providing proper healthcare services for mothers and newborns is of particular importance. On Sunday, 28 Saratan, the European Union wrote on the platform X that it had jointly visited a midwife-managed maternity care center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afg_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}