Pregnancy and childbirth a major cause of death among Afghan refugee women
N.B. Please note that if you outside North America the embargo date for Lancet press material is 0001 hours UK time Friday 22 February 2002.... ...A survey of Afghan refugees done before the events of September 11, 2001, published in this weeks issue of THE LANCET, highlights how a lack of access to health care for women of reproductive age results in pregnancy and childbirth being major risk fa...Some US soldiers returning from Afghanistan should be screened for malaria
Nearly 40 U.S. Army Rangers returning from Afghanistan in 2002 may have contracted malaria because of inadequate use of preventive measures, according to a study in the January 12 issue of ....... War and conflict have had a long historical partnership with malarial outbreaks, according to background information in the article. Disruptions in health care infrastructure, maneuvering of numerous m...School of Public Health awarded $3.9 million to assess Afghan health system
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded $3.9 million from the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to set up a national evaluation system to monitor and assess the nation's health care system. In addition, the Hopkins researchers will assist the Afghan government in developing a health care finance system to sustain health services in the future. The three-year grant,...The reconstruction of Afghanistan's health-care infrastructure 'has the potential to serve as a blueprint for the post-conflict reconstruction for other nations' concludes this week's editorial. ...... At a time when global media attention is focused on the instability of Iraq, Afghanistan is quietly developing health-care policies that could have considerable positive impact on its 25 million in...