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    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting...
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    After months of continuous restrictions placed on the female population of Afghanistan, limitations placed on their participation in everyday life, ac...
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Jawahira was referred to the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a ...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But main...
    Measles
    Malnutrition
    Afghanistan: 'My gut feeling told me that ‘something is terribly wrong’
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: 'My gut feeling told me that ‘something is terribly wrong’
    Every year, thousands of Afghan women lose their lives during childbirth, and now even more women in the country are without health care. But at the h...
    Maternal health
    Women’s health
    Afghanistan: Expanding access to urgently needed maternal health care
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Expanding access to urgently needed maternal health care
    Against the backdrop of political and economic crisis and a health care system on the brink of collapse, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Front...
    Maternal health
    Women’s health
    Afghanistan: Malnutrition soars in Herat as healthcare is at breaking point
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Malnutrition soars in Herat as healthcare is at breaking point
    The Afghan healthcare system has been fragile and plagued by major gaps for years now, and the suspension of international aid as a result of the rece...
    Child health
    Malnutrition
    Delivering essential medical services in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan
    Delivering essential medical services in Afghanistan
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) remains in Afghanistanto provide much needed medical care.
    War and conflict
    Afghanistan: Injuries and displacement soar as violence spreads around the country
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Injuries and displacement soar as violence spreads around the country
    The violence in Afghanistan has surged since May with fighting around and inside provincial capitals between the Afghan forces and the Islamic Emirate...
    War and conflict
    Surgery and trauma care
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