{"id":10500,"date":"2024-12-04T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afghanistankomiteen.no\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:54:14","slug":"afghan-women-and-children-continue-to-pay-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afghanistankomiteen.no\/en\/afghan-women-and-children-continue-to-pay-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women and children continue to pay the price for Taliban\u2019s erratic policies of restrictions and prohibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oslo, Norway \u2013 December 4th. 2024, <\/strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>The latest decision by the Taliban to close institutes of health sciences is dramatically reducing the rights of women, girls, and newborns to healthcare.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Consequently, it will be impossible for Afghanistan to reach the UN SDG 3 to <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and SDG Target 3.1. to <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reduce maternal mortality rates from currently close to 700 per hundred-thousand live births to 70 per hundred-thousand live births<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This total disregard for human life and suffering is hard to fathom based on the Afghan cultural and religious values the Taliban claims to defend.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This decision will inevitably lead to an increase in the urban-rural gap in access to quality healthcare services. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The 10 public regional institutes of health sciences have been guarantors for the education of female healthcare professionals from rural areas, towards serving the needs of their home communities. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This has been the main contributing factor in reducing maternal and infant mortality rates in Rural-Afghanistan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Further, this increases the gap between the income-rich and the income-poor, as the income-rich can cross borders into Iran and Pakistan for healthcare services, while the income-poor depend on quality services within Afghanistan.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The decision to close institutes of health sciences favors the income-rich urban elite and is in steep contradiction to everything the Taliban claim to represent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> However, there is still time for the leadership to reverse its decision, realize the consequences of their own actions, and show the women, men and youth of Afghanistan that they put their own people first.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC) has been working in solidarity with the Afghan people for 45 years and remain committed to Afghan women, men, children and youth regardless of which government is in power at any given time.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oslo, Norway \u2013 December 4th. 2024, The latest decision by the Taliban to close institutes of health sciences is dramatically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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