Afghanistan health sector: Back to 2002
Taliban’s resurgence to power in August 2021, and the subsequent withdrawal of funding for major health programmes in Afghanistan have posed serious healthcare challenges in the country. By Naseer Ahmad “In Afghanistan, 25 million people have among the world’s worst health and greatest needs…particularly hard hit by Afghanistan’s 23 years of war, civil strife and Taliban misrule, are Afghan women, who are experiencing – what health officials call – ”catastrophic” death rates associated with pregnancy and childbirth — the world’s worst,” reads the NYT report of October 2002. Now the September 2...