Healthcare, aid and the Taliban: Fix crumbling health system or risk greater humanitarian catastrophe
The New Humanitarian Interview with Afghanistan’s acting health minister, Dr Wahid Majrooh, on situation after the Taliban takeover in Kabul. International aid donors must find a way to fund Afghanistan’s crumbling health system, or risk an even greater humanitarian catastrophe. This is the warning from the country’s acting health minister,...
Menstrual hygiene: How Syrian refugee women cope with indignity of reusing sanitary towels
A 2020 study commissioned by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on the social acceptability and practicality of using reusable sanitary pads in Lebanon found a host of challenges. For starters, among the around one million Syrian refugees and the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees are many women who...
