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Table 1 Characteristics of Mirbachakot and Kama districts of Afghanistan from August 2017 to April 2018

	Mirbachakot	Kama
Population^a
Total population of district	97,631	43,164
Number of women of reproductive age	19,526	8633
Number of children under 1 year	3905	1727
Access
Mountainous district^b	No	No
Remoteness^c	Yes	Yes
Distance in kms from provincial capital	40	50
District security risk^d	Medium	Medium
Sociodemographics^a
% reproductive age women in lowest wealth quintile	16.9%	20.1%
% reproductive age women with no education	49.1%	68.5%
% reproductive age women with any contraception use	26.5%	13.3%
% reproductive age women who report difficulties accessing health care	50.8%	79.7%
Health services^e
Total number of fixed health facilities (Sub health centre, basic health centre, comprehensive health centre, district hospital)	9	5
Total population per fixed health facilities	10,848	8638
Number of district hospitals	1	1
Number of comprehensive health centres	1	1
Number of basic health centres	3	3
Number of sub health centres	4	0
Number of health posts	70	38
Number of doctors	18	7
Number of midwives	24	11
Number of vaccinators	23	14
Number of nutrition counsellors	4	1
Number of community health workers	139	76

^a Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey (AfDHS 2015) [1]
^b Mountainous = More than 1800 km elevation at highest point of district. SDES 2016 [14]
^c Remote = District centre more than 2 h by any form of transport from provincial capital. Afghanistan Social Demographic and Economic Survey (SDES 2016) [14]
^d Security risk = Use of armed force between warring parties in a conflict dyad, state-based or non-state, resulting in deaths. 25 deaths or less in the previous 12 months is categorised as low intensity security risk, 25–100 is categorised as moderate intensity security risk and 100+ is categorised as high intensity security risk. World Bank 2016 [13]
^e Afghanistan Health Management Information System (HMIS 2017) [15]

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