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Urgent: Afghanistan at the brink of a malnutrition crisis, Please Donate

Friend,

Dangerous malnutrition remains high in Afghanistan, where a confluence of crises has put millions of people at risk of starvation. In Herat Province, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the few sources of health care for millions of people.

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Afghanistan’s health care system is largely dependent on foreign aid, and in the days that followed the rapid transfer of power to the Taliban last summer, that aid almost entirely disappeared. Many foreign donors cut off or reduced funding, causing food and transportation prices to soar and straining health centers across the country.

Along with the COVID-19 pandemic and a historic drought that has resulted in record low harvests, our teams saw a rapid increase in malnutrition cases in 2021—especially among children. While the number of patients in MSF’s intensive therapeutic feeding clinic has gone down since its September peak, many people are still arriving to seek care, some traveling more than 100 miles to reach it.

Friend, we are reaching out to this community now to help us continue providing care where it’s needed most—in Afghanistan and more than 70 countries around the world.

We scaled up our regional operations, including adding more beds to our intensive therapeutic feeding clinic in Herat, but in the words of an MSF team member, “There is a lot of work on our shoulders.”

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Thank you—we’ll be in touch soon with more information as the situation unfolds.

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