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Friend: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are seeing a rise in cases of critical malnutrition in Afghanistan, where economic fallout following the Taliban’s rise to power has left millions of people unable to afford food or health care. Last month, MSF’s feeding centers in Herat and Helmund were both over 100 percent capacity as patients poured in from across the country—some traveling more than 100 miles to seek our care.
There is no single cause for the crisis in Afghanistan. Economic and political turmoil from the Taliban's takeover this summer, coupled with COVID-19 and a historic drought, has driven millions of people to the brink of starvation.
In addition, crucial foreign aid from entities like the World Bank has been halted, putting further strain on a health care system already at risk of collapse. In Herat, MSF-supported Herat Regional Hospital is one of the few sources of health care for millions of people.
We have added beds to our intensive therapeutic feeding clinic, but there is still a massive need for medical humanitarian aid across many parts of the country.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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