Afghanistan has largely disappeared from media focus but is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. 90% of the population is in poverty and cannot pay for healthcare. Nearly 18 million Afghans need health services while there are only 10 health workers for every 10,000. Its maternal and infant mortality rates is one of the worst in the world, where staggeringly 167 infants and 24 mothers die every day from preventable causes.

The Anabah Maternity Centre is staffed almost entirely by Afghan women providing free and high-quality maternal and neonatal care for women and babies, alongside training medical personnel. Since opening in 2003, the Centre remains the only specialised, completely free facility of its kind in an area of over 250,000 people, providing obstetric, gynaecological and neonatal care equipped with facilities that provide comprehensive treatment from diagnostics to treatment and follow-up care.