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AFGHANISTAN: Overstretched health services in Kandahar province (30 September 2009)
 Health officials say patient numbers in Kandahar’s Mirwais hospital are rising steeply, but doctors do not have the capacity to respond to the influx. Most of the patients at Mirwais hospital come from the southern insecure provinces, where health centres have been closed by the insurgency. IRIN’s Ali Minayar reports. | Duration: 06:59 |
AFGHANISTAN: "Differentiate rape from adultery" - rights groups (6 September 2009)
 Human rights groups are calling on the Afghan government to adopt a new law to define rape as a criminal offence, and separate rape from consensual adultery, which is treated as a serious crime. IRIN’s Masooma Mohammadi reports. | Duration: 05:52 |
AFGHANISTAN: Midwives defy tradition and save lives (27 August 2009)
 Health officials in Bamyan estimate that newly trained midwives now providing essential health services for women in the province have reduced the number of deaths in childbirth by almost half. IRIN’s Masooma Mohammadi reports. | Duration: 07:04 |
AFGHANISTAN: New centres to tackle malnutrition among mothers and children (26 August 2009)
 The Afghan Ministry of Public Health supported by UNICEF has established 44 nutrition centres in several provinces across the country. The centres will provide nutritional food supplements to mothers and children. IRIN’s Masooma Mohammadi reports. | Duration: 06:41 |
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