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May 1, 2021
Afghanistan: Health Care for Women Hit by Aid Cuts
Midwives care for a mother who has just given birth at Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan in October 2020. © 2020 Lynzy Billing
A psychiatrist meets with a female patient on the mental health ward in Herat Regional Hospital in Herat, Afghanistan in April 2021. © 2021 Lynzy Billing
A midwife talks with a patient about family planning options at Kahdistan clinic in Herat province, Afghanistan in October 2020. © 2020 Lynzy Billing
A midwife discusses family planning with a patient at Kahdistan clinic in Herat province, Afghanistan in October 2020. The health workers at Kahdistan clinic teach reproductive health and family planning methods using picture books as most of their patients cannot read. Each patient receives a book that is marked with their contraception instructions. © 2020 Lynzy Billing
A board tracking provision of services at a maternity ward at Mirwais Hospital, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in February 2020. © 2020 Lynzy Billing
A patient waiting to receive chemotherapy on the women’s cancer ward at the Jamhuriat Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan in May 2019. © 2019 Lynzy Billing
Women wait at the Shahrak-e-Sabz internally displaced person camp in Herat for transportation to Kahdistan health clinic run by MSF, October 2020. Kahdistan health clinic was established in 2018 as a maternal clinic but now welcomes all patients, providing basic health care, including vaccinations. © 2020 Lynzy Billing
Women waiting at Kahdistan clinic in Herat province, Afghanistan in October 2020. The small women's health clinic, run by MSF, serves Shahrak-e-Sabz camp, the largest settlement of displaced people in western Afghanistan. About 80,000 people, most of whom fled fighting and drought in 2018, live in the camp. The clinic is the sole option for women and girls from the camp seeking reproductive health care. © 2020 Lynzy Billing
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Afghanistan
Asia
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Women's Rights
Health Care Access
Women and Armed Conflict
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Health