“It’s the lucky ones who reach us”: Inside Afghanistan’s child malnutrition crisis
Dr Mohammed is a Doctors Without Borders' medic who works at an Doctors Without Borders' hospital in Lashkar Gah, where hundreds of mothers and childr...
Malnutrition
Afghanistan
Medical care in Kunduz, Afghanistan: Making it work
Fighting in the city of Kunduz in north-eastern Afghanistan ended on 8 August. During the clashes, Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (...
Surgery and trauma care
War and conflict
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: “Treating patients is our responsibility. There’s a lot of work on our shoulders.”
After months of fighting on the outskirts of Herat in Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, also known as the Taliban, took control of the ...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Uncertainty, but still full hospitals
After the rapid transfer of power in Afghanistan there has been a big shift in the health context. Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
OpEd: Will we talk to the Taliban? Why not, we always have
On Sunday, August 15, after months of intense fighting, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, also known as the Taliban) entered the capital city o...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
One year after the attack on Dasht-e-Barchi maternity
On 12 May 2020, the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked. Twenty-four people were killed, according to of...
