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Half of Afghan children suffer irreversible harm from malnutrition

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The Guardian, 26 January 2014 Emma Graham-Harrison, reporting from Samangan, point to the often neglected social side of events in Afghanistan: "More than half of Afghan girls and boys suffer damage to their minds and bodies that cannot be undone because they are poorly nourished in the crucial first two years of life", acoording to […]

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Afghanistan’s Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis

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New York Times, 4 January 2014 "Afghan hospitals like Bost, in the capital of war-torn Helmand Province, have been registering significant increases in severe malnutrition among children" writes Rod Nordland, reporting on the often over-looked socio-economic side of things in Afghanistan. "Countrywide, such cases have increased by 50 percent or more compared with 2012, according to […]

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In Kabul, clinic funded by U.S. military closing because of lack of government support

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Washington Post, 18 November 2013 Another "White Elephant" or victim of Afghan government inability? – the story of the Urgent and Primary Care Clinic in Kabul, "the brainchild of Asad Mojadidi, an Afghan-born doctor" who now is advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), build with Pentagon money and inaugurated by then ISAF commander Eikenberry in […]

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Hidden casualties of Afghan war: nomadic farmers adopt more settled life

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Guardian, 8 January 2013 An interesting glimpse into often-idealised nomadic life in Afghanistan by Emma Graham-Harrison, based on research by the Pastoral Engagement, Adaptation and Capacity Enhancement (Peace) programme. According to it, ‘hundreds of thousands’ of nomads have settled down ‘or are petitioning the government for land so they can join a more mainstream way […]

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133 Children Die a Day in Afghanistan

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Khaama Press (Kabul), 6 January 2013 The news agency’s report points out that ‘diarrhoeal diseases are responsible for the death of 48,545 children every year in the country’, amounting to 133 a day. ‘Even in the Afghan capital, Kabul, barely 25 percent of people, according to some reports, have direct access to potable water.’ The […]

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Kanda and Backyard Pools: Faryabi Ways of Coping with Water Shortages

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Only 27 per cent of Afghanistan’s population has access to safe water sources, according to the government in Kabul. Faryab, a province in the country’s north, is an example of where access to potable water causes major problems for the inhabitants. Storing water for dry periods has always been a challenge there. Now problems have […]

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Gains In Afghan Health: Too Good To Be True?

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NPR, 17 January 2012 A U.S.-sponsored mortality survey released last year announced huge improvements in health across Afghanistan. But the gains are so great that experts are still arguing about whether it’s correct, writes NPR’s Quil Lawrence. His conclusion: It’s unlikely that both the old life expectancy of 42 years and the new estimate of […]

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U.S. Military Waste A Smoldering Afghan Health Issue

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RFE/RL, 28 October 2011 Not that Afghans were particularly environmentally aware (smell all the burning plastic at night), but this has another dimension: Afghan workers on the US base at Bagram report that the US military is burning ‘TVs, radios, mobile phones, and all sorts of electronics’ as well as more human remains in a […]

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An inflated claim of health success in Afghanistan exposed

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Christian Science Monitor, 8 December 2010 Anohita Mojumdar’s latest article reveals that the often-heard claim (by internationals) that 85 per cent of Afghans have access to health services is ‘misleading’. The Afghan Minister of Health and WHo clarifiy that the fact that 85 percent of Afghanistan’s districts have at least one basic health facility is […]

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Diseases of Afluence

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Maisonneuve, 15 November 2010 A Canadian internist who served in Kandahar’s Combat Surgical Hospital discusses how “[f]or someone used to the life and the pathologies of the rich and settled, much about practicing medicine in Afghanistan felt unfamiliar.” On diabetes, urbanisation, skinny Afghans, the Polynesian sea and much more.

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