Last year, the United States’ slashing of humanitarian funding for Afghanistan led to the suspension or closure of 422 health facilities. The series I shot and wrote for TIME in July documents the impact on women’s access to healthcare in Daikundi province. In villages, pregnant women could no longer access midwives to give birth safely. In some areas, midwives continued to work without salaries. Several women had already lost unborn children. Others lived in fear of having to give birth at home. One man had lost both his wife and newborn after it took them over 12 hours to reach a hospital.
