395 - The Health Care Situation in Afghanistan
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
From the first Taliban government exit in 2001 to 2015, Afghanistan went from having some of the worst indicators for health in the world to dramatic improvements in maternal mortality and childhood malnutrition. But when the Taliban stepped back into power in August of this year, thousands of health clinics were shuttered almost overnight and outcomes for women and children already look much worse. Afghanistan-born Dr. Nadia Akseer, a Johns Hopkins scientist in International Health, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the country's post-Taliban health system, and why the international community will need to wait and see what might happen under this "new Taliban" coming to power 20 years later.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
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| 0:50.9 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Nadia Aksir, |
| 0:54.5 | a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| 0:57.6 | and a native of Afghanistan. |
| 0:59.9 | They discuss what happened to health the first time |
| 1:02.1 | the Taliban were forced from power there |
| 1:04.8 | and how desperate the situation has already become |
| 1:07.2 | now that the Taliban have returned to power. |
| 1:09.8 | Let's listen. Nadia Axir, thanks so much for joining |
| 1:13.0 | me. Thanks for having me, Stephanie. So today I'd like to talk about the situation, the health care |
| 1:18.2 | situation in Afghanistan. And first, I'd like you to tell me a bit about the research that you |
| 1:23.7 | did for your dissertation, which I understand had to do with what happened in Afghanistan |
| 1:29.5 | when the Taliban came and went. Absolutely. So for my dissertation, I studied maternal and child |
| 1:36.3 | health and nutrition in Afghanistan. Importantly, we looked at the progresses the country had made |
| 1:41.4 | since the first Taliban government ousting, which was in 2001. At that point, |
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