Afghanistan 
Afghanistan: Taliban IEDs take toll on civilians(0)
Kabul–Hidden on roadsides, behind boulders or on cultivated land, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are killing or maiming dozens of civilians every month, according to rights groups and government officials.
IEDs killed 773 civilians in 2009 – over 32 percent of the total 2,412 civilian deaths – according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Afghan rights watchdog [...]
Afghanistan: Empty hospital beds in the capital of Helmand
Helmand Province–Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started to work again in Afghanistan after an absence of five years. MSF General Director Christopher Stokes, has extensive work experience in the country, and he has recently been back to take stock of the MSF projects.
In this article, he explains why it is crucial for MSF [...]
Afghanistan: Politics of aid leaves many Afghans cut off from humanitarian assistance
Afghanistan–As the war in Afghanistan escalated in 2009, Afghan civilians endured increasing levels of violence throughout the country. The insecurity has damaged an already beleaguered health-care system, leaving only a few poorly functioning hospitals and clinics in provincial capitals. Afghans in need of any health care must now make an impossible choice: risk traveling hundreds [...]
Afghanistan: First nation in world to use new vaccine against polio
Kabul–A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time today in polio immunization campaigns in Afghanistan. The bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV), recommended by the Advisory Committee on Poliomyelitis Eradication, the global technical advisory body of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as a critical tool to eradicate polio, can provide the optimal [...]
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