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a woman from western Afghanistan. We will call her. Robbia was suffering from severe fever, so she went to see a doctor. The doctor's diagnosis was covered. 19 Ravi ever return home suffering from pain and fever, and gave her prescription to her husband to buy the medicine for her. But when he saw her name on the prescription, he beat her for revealing it to a strange man. Her story, which was related to the BBC through a friend. It's not unique in Afghanistan. Family members often force women to keep their name a secret from from people outside the family. Even doctors using a woman's name in public is frowned upon and can be considered an insult. Many Afghan men are reluctant to say the names of their sisters, wives or mothers in public women are generally only referred to as the mother, daughter or sister off the elders. Male in the family on Afghan law dictates that only the father's name should be recorded on a birth certificate