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Lynsey Addario

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In Afghanistan you seldom see an unaccompanied woman. Noor Nisa, about 18, was pregnant; her water had just broken. Her husband, whose first wife had died during childbirth, was determined to get Noor Nisa to the hospital in Faizabad, a four-hour dr

Afghan women are offered pre-natal and anti-natal care, and are given counseling by Dr. Zubeida, a midwife from the mobile health unit funded by UNFPA , in Charmas Village, a remote area of Badakshan, Afghanistan, August 9, 2009. Afghanistan, a cou

An Afghan woman holds her sick daughter before Dr. Zubeida, a midwife from the mobile health unit funded by UNFPA , as she inquires about her daughter's condition as Zubeida offers pre-natal and anti-natal care, and are given counseling by in Charm

Mothers return by foot with their children to remote villages after receiving vaccinations for their children at the Bumpe Government Clinic in Bo District, Sierra Leone, October 30, 2012. Many women have to walk for miles in order to reach a clin

Medical staff with MSF, Doctors without Borders, assist women in Sierra Leone to have babies, and with post-natal care at the Gondama Referral Center, in Gondama, Bo, Sierra Leone, October 26, 2012. Sierra Leone has one of the highest rates of mater

Mamma Sessay, 18, lies on the delivery table next to her first-born twin as she waits to deliver the second at the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May 20, 2010. Her second pregnancy, Mamma delivered the first child the day before at

Mamma Sessay, 18, rests on the delivery table before delivering twins at the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May 20, 2010.

Mamma Sessay, 18, screams in pain and with fear on the delivery table as she is comforted by her sister, Amenata, left, a nurse, as she prepares to deliver the second of twins at the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May 20, 2010.

A nurse tries to resuscitate the second-born twin of Mamma Sesay, 18, after she was delivered roughly 24 hours after the first child at the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May 20, 2010.

Blood continues to leak from Mamma Sesay, 18, shortly after she delivered the second of twins, as her sister, Amenata, help clean her body at the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May 20, 2010.

Mamma Sessay, 18, collapses with exhaustion after pushing fruitlessly with contractions to deliver the second of twins, as a nurse takes her blood pressure at the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May 20, 2010.

Nurses and midwives carry Mamma Sessay to a stretcher to bring her over to the surgical ward, where the only doctor in the district is, about one and a half hours after delivering her second baby, as she continues to have postpartum hemorrhaging, an

Doctors check the pulse of Mamma Sessay after she is finally treated by the only doctor in the district, and given an IV and blood, about one and a half hours after postpartum hemmoraging began, and she is pronounced dead at the Magburaka Government

Marie Yatteh, center, screams with sorrow when she is told by her daughter, Amenata, that Mamma Sessay, her younger daughter, died from postpartum hemmoraging moments after her death outside of the Magburaka Government Hospital, in Sierra Leone, May

Maria Komeh, the stepmother of Mamma Sessay, weeps over the body of Mamma Sessay as female relatives bid goodbye to Mamma Sessay before her burial in the village of Mayogbah the day after her death from postpartum hemorrhaging, in Sierra Leone, May