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Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
For more than two decades, Afghanistan's healthcare system has faced longstanding issues of understaffing, underfunding, and inadequate response to po...
Kesihatan ibu
Kesihatan kanak-kanak
Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
At 11:10 am local time on Saturday, October 7, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by three subsequent aftershocks. As of ...
Bencana alam
Tindak balas kecemasan
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 ...
Tuberkulosis
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...
Campak
Malnutrisi
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...
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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...
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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...
Kesihatan kanak-kanak
Malnutrisi