For two decades, aid from the World Bank and other international donors propped up the country's health care system, but after the Taliban seized power, they froze $600 million in health care aid
A women and child at the malnutrition ward of a hospital in Afghanistan's Maidan Wardak province, Sept. 9, 2021. The health care system in Afghanistan is on the brink of collapse, international aid groups warned this week, threatening to deepen the country’s humanitarian crisis just as temperatures begin dropping.
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