In 2003 I had the opportunity to work with the health clinics and midwives in Afghanistan. One of the managers whom we hired for one of the clinics happened to have been, prior to his work with us, a judge for the Taliban. We had to convince this man to allow the traditional midwives to use oxytocin, which was no small task. We also had to convince him against his cultural beliefs, that the midwives deserved to be paid.