Women are struggling to feed their children and themselves, leaving them all malnourished.
"Sometimes, we even have two patients in one bed," she told AFP, adding that training, including on how to support mothers' breastfeeding, had improved malnutrition rates. Seventy-nine percent of ...
This concerning trend coincides with escalating poverty and malnutrition rates, especially among women, raising alarms among human rights groups. Amid these challenges, many Afghan people are ...
Baharak (Afghanistan) (AFP) – Roya carefully spoon-feeds her daughter fortified milk in a ward for malnourished children, praying the tiny infant will avoid a condition that stalks one in ten ...
Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of stunting in children under five, said Daniel Timme, communications head for the UN children's agency, UNICEF. "If not detected and treated ...
Afghan nurse, holding a cup of milk for a patient in the malnutrition ward of the government hospital in Baharak district of Badakhshan province. - Malnutrition has been exacerbated by the ...