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Broaching Birth Control With Afghan Mullahs
Nov. 14, 2009
By Sabrina Tavernise
The mullahs stared silently at the screen. They shifted in their chairs and fiddled with pencils. Koranic verses flashed above them, but the topic was something that made everybody a little uncomfortable.
"A baby should be breast-fed for at least 21 months," said the instructor. "Milk is safe inside the breast. Dust and germs can't get inside."
It was a seminar on birth control, a likely subject for a nation whose fertility rate of 6 children per woman is the highest in Asia. But the audience was unusual: 10 Islamic religious leaders from this city and its suburbs, wearing turbans and sipping tea.
© 2009 The New York Times Company
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/asia/15mazar.html
category: Member Organization News : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 20 November 2009
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