Other factors also contribute to the dire health situation of Afghan women - girls tend to become pregnant at an age at which their body is not fully developed; child spacing is unknown or ignored because of the societal pressure to generate sons; and women are simply denied health care because there is no one to accompany them to health-care centres or no money to cover the costs.
Other factors also contribute to the dire health situation of Afghan women - girls tend to become pregnant at an age at which their body is not fully developed; child spacing is unknown or ignored because of the societal pressure to generate sons; and women are simply denied health care because there is no one to accompany them to health-care centres or no money to cover the costs.