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January 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Mohammad Qasim, a 58-year-old butcher, is traumatised, depressed and anxious -- like 50 percent of his fellow Afghans after 30 years of war, according to government figures. Qasim saw his wife, daughter-in-law and two grandsons aged five and six die in a horrific suicide bombing in Kabul last month. Full news...
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January 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Seventy percent of children in a district of eastern Nangarhar province have caught various diseases due to exposure to harsh weather conditions, officials and residents said on Monday. Up to 100 centimetres of snow had been recorded so far in the Hesarak district, where roads connecting the town with Jalalabad remained closed, said the district development council head. Full news...
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January 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Avalanches have killed at least 29 people in Afghanistan’s mountainous northeast as rescuers struggled to reach the worst-hit areas cut off by heavy snows, officials said. The Afghan National Disaster Management Agency said Thursday that at least 40 more people have been injured in a series of avalanches since Monday in Badakhshan province. Full news...
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December 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: An explosion at a coal mine in northern Afghanistan has killed 11 people, an official said Saturday. The miners, who were all working at the site without government permission, died after an explosion triggered a collapse at the mine in Baghlan province on Friday night, said the provincial governor's spokesman Mahmood Haqmal. Full news...
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December 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: She was 15 years old, heavily pregnant and had travelled eight days on the back of a donkey to reach hospital. Suffering from seizures and high blood pressure, she died soon after at the Herat Maternity Hospital in western Afghanistan, one of the thousands of women who die in the country each year from causes linked to pregnancy and birth. Full news...
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November 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Independent Online: The international community has been pumping huge sums of money into Afghanistan for more than a decade, but the country remains one of the world’s 10 poorest. The World Bank estimates that 15.7 billion dollars in aid flowed into the country last year alone. The economy has been growing at more than 9 per cent on average for several years, but from an extremely low base. Full news...
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November 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mail: One U.S. veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan attempts suicide every 80 minutes, according to new study. In a staggering indictment on the lack of mental health programmes in the U.S. military, the report reveals 1,868 veterans made suicide attempts in 2009 alone. Many veterans face dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, high employment and a loss of military camaraderie after returning from tours. Full news...
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October 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: For all the column inches and hours of negotiations spent discussing Afghanistan’s recent past, present and future, one of the most pressing parts of the puzzle remains largely overlooked and poorly understood. The country sits on top of vast mineral deposits, which, if properly managed, offer the best chance of lifting a generation out of poverty and weaning the country off international aid. Full news...
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October 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time: When Fawzia went into labor with her fifth child, she knew something was wrong. She felt like her insides were being ripped apart by knives. She bled so much that her clothes were soaked. “I did not want to die,” recalls Fawzia, 25, who, like many rural Afghans, only uses one name. “I prayed and hoped the pain would go away. But when it didn’t, I asked to go to a hospital.” Full news...
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September 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Khanashin carbonatites in southern Helmand Province have an estimated one million metric tonnes of rare earth material, according to a US Geological Survey (USGS) estimate. This estimate came on Wednesday from a 2009-2011 USGS study, funded by the Department of Defence Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO). Full news...
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September 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: KABUL—American officers deployed as mentors in Afghanistan’s main military hospital discovered a shocking secret last year: Injured soldiers were routinely dying of simple infections and even starving to death as some corrupt doctors and nurses demanded bribes for food and the most basic of care. Full news...
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July 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: A chronic shortage of midwives and basic health services makes having a baby one of the most dangerous things an Afghan woman can do. A woman dies during childbirth every 29 minutes in Afghanistan, which is wracked by poverty, insecurity and deeply ingrained discrimination against women. Full news...
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July 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Authorities are striving to improve health conditions for women in Afghanistan, where maternal mortality and female life expectancy indicators are the worst in the world, says a new report. According to the State of the World’s Mothers 2011 report, published on 24 June by NGO Save the Children, about 50 women die in childbirth each day in Afghanistan. Full news...
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July 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Only 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population have access to safe drinking water and only 37 percent use improved sanitation facilities - with serious health implications, especially for children, according to the UN Children’s Fund. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Continued Taliban-led insurgency, insecurity incidents, high rate of unemployment and poverty have been main obstacle to delay the return of over six million Afghan refugees from neighboring states. “Almost all Afghan refugees living in neighboring country of Iran prefer to return home country, but they were forced to stay abroad due to continued war, insecurity and high rate of unemployment in Afghanistan,”... Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, a new global survey shows. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan in the list of the five worst countries, the poll among gender experts shows. Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WFRV News: While the war rages on in Afghanistan the military continues to cope with a battle here at home, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To date, the military has diagnosed 78,000 cases of PTSD, but the Veteran’s Administration says that number is inaccurate. To catch up with numbers like that the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend new programs to help both soldiers and their families. Full news...
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June 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: War may kill thousands of civilians a year in Afghanistan, but choking air pollution in the capital Kabul is more deadly, experts say. Signs of the silent killer -- pollutants emitted by old cars, poor quality fuel and people burning trash -- are everywhere on the city’s chaotic streets. Men walking or cycling usually cover their mouths with masks or scarves to keep out the dust. Full news...
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June 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: WITHIN a 40-minute drive of this city stands the 11th-century Bost Arch. A former gateway to Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, the arch is today a national historic site; it even appears on the 100-Afghani note. The arch withstood centuries of invasions, but today it’s a crumbling mess of inept supports and clumsy renovations. Full news...
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May 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The National: The checkpoints on Kabul’s streets and concrete barricades around its key buildings are a reminder of the war Afghanistan has been in since 2001. But beneath some of its bridges are signs of another war - the battle against HIV. During a recent afternoon, aid workers weaved in and out among the hundreds of drug addicts who gather daily under a bridge in the Pul-e Sought-a neighbourhood of the city to smoke and inject heroin. Full news...
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April 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Air pollution in Afghan big cities particularly the capital city Kabul has reached alarming point as head of National Environment Directorate, Mustafa warned last Sunday of dire consequences if air pollution is not checked. “Living condition would become impossible within the next seven years if the status quo of air pollution continues in Kabul and other major towns,” Zahir said... Full news...
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April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan’s government and foreign donors spend barely 10 USD a person on health, despite pointing to it as key to winning back support against a worsening insurgency that has dragged on for nearly a decade, a study said Sunday. The other 31 USD per person that makes up the country’s meager health spend comes from Afghans themselves, many of whom struggle to provide doctors and drug care for their families... Full news...
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March 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Many women in central Daikundi province are dying unnecessarily because there are no female doctors in any of the districts. The provincial council has accused the nongovernmental organisation contracted for the last four years to provide health services in Daikundi of not doing its job. Full news...
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March 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Seventeenth-century Persian poet Saeb Tabrizi famously sang the praises of Kabul’s lush gardens and sparkling water, extolling “the beauty of her trees” and “colorful tulips” and beseeching Allah to “protect such beauty from the evil eye of man.” Some 400 years later, the so-called king of poets must be rolling over in his tomb, as the last three decades seem to have brought much evil to this ancient city that connects Central and South Asia. Full news...
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February 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Flash floods and heavy snowfall killed 25 people and damaged up to 3,000 houses in different parts of Afghanistan over the past two weeks, according to government officials. At least 20 people died and 53 have been injured in Parwan, Herat, Wardak and Daykundi provinces, the Afghanistan National Disasters Management Authority (ANDMA) said. Full news...
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February 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan could face a serious drought in 2011 that would make millions of poor go hungry and fuel instability as foreign troops seek to reverse surging violence in the battle against the Taliban. Low rainfall early in the wet season will likely threaten Afghanistan’s irrigated harvest, U.S. forecasts show, which with a surge in global grain prices could be devastating for a nation already ranked as having the world's worst food security. Full news...
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February 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Through a blue gate, they come for treatment in the early morning, faces wrapped in scarves against the cold. For now it’s a trickle, but their numbers are rising. “I try to keep it secret, especially from my mother,” said a 26-year-old HIV patient at a foreign-run clinic in the Afghan capital, Kabul. “If she knew I had HIV, she would die.” Full news...
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February 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: ens of thousands of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan are vulnerable to cold-related diseases but have little or no access to health services, according to aid agencies. Over 350,000 IDPs, including about 155,000 people displaced by conflict since November 2009, are living in camps and informal settlements in different parts of the country, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ENS: Mohammad Aref and his family are not looking forward to the Kabul summer. Last year, it meant stifling months shut up in the family home in the Khair Khana district, trying to avoid the fetid smell wafting in from the piles of rubbish in the surrounding streets. “We could not open windows to let in fresh air in any of the rooms all through the summer,” the 40-year-old said. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mirror: THE war on terror is taking its toll on the mental state of British troops with a dramatic rise in the number seeking psychiatric help. The daily threat of roadside bombs, fierce gun battles and seeing comrades killed or horrifically maimed in the blood and dust of Afghanistan has led to a steep increase in the number of personnel suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. Full news...
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