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Kabul’s Mental Health Crisis Spirals Out of Control

WebApril 3, 2023. Patients being treated at a mental health facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 27, 2022. (Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) On a wintry …

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Classifying Middle East Americans as ‘White’ Undermines the …

WebAmericans with roots in the Middle Eastern and North Africa region (MENA) are classified as “white” according to census data, but this diverse population has …

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A Chicago Doctor Decries the Suffering of Medical Professionals …

WebA Chicago Doctor Decries the Suffering of Medical Professionals and Patients in Gaza The dismantling of health care in the strip has left workers traumatized, …

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How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment

WebIn 2017, Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency, or NEPA, said that 70% of the underground water in Kabul was not safe for human consumption …

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U.S. Army Confronts Mental Health Problems

WebThe current problem can be difficult to quantify. According to the 2021 Health of the Force report, 15% of Army soldiers had been formally diagnosed with one or more …

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In Treatment: Therapy in the Middle East Needs a Non-Western …

WebIn Treatment: Therapy in the Middle East Needs a Non-Western Approach. There’s long been a mismatch between the mental health care tradition conceptualized …

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Is Putin Sick – Or Are We Meant to Think He Is

WebIs Vladimir Putin sick or even dying? The tabloid press, bolstered by a sudden efflorescence of Twitter diagnosticians, certainly seems to think so. Since his …

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How Prejudices Warped Health Care in the Colonies

WebIn 1891, almost 20,000 Egyptians died in Cairo. This was a relatively average year. There was no particular pestilence; the plague had been gradually receding from …

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In South Asia, a Battle Against Taboos on Female Sexuality

WebAnanya Rao-Middleton, the creative director at Expert by Experience, a community-led organization that looks at mental health in South Asia, told New Lines …

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Qat’s Vicious Environmental Cycle

WebThe shrub has caught Yemen in a devilish vicious cycle: As drought intensifies, more farmers turn to qat, and environmental disaster gains speed. And as …

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Mayhem Prevails in Khartoum’s Hospitals

WebRelatives sit by a patient at a makeshift emergency room set up by Sudanese volunteers in a school in Omdurman, the capital’s twin city, on May 27, 2023.

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The South Pacific Has a Drug Problem

WebAustralia has long been the largest donor of aid to the South Pacific. Yet that assistance has stagnated over the past decade. In 2019 — the latest data available from …

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'It's like Judgment Day': Syrians Recount Horror of an …

WebA few days after Abu Maher was admitted to a hospital in one of Syria’s coastal cities, he felt like he was suffocating. He had managed to secure the small, …

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India’s Family Planning Still Relies Mainly on Female Sterilization

WebIndia’s family planning program has since come to rely heavily, and unfairly, on one method: female sterilization. According to the National Family Health Survey in …

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Russia’s Long History of Bombing Hospitals

WebRussia has been bombing hospitals for over six years in Syria, and the Mariupol bombing is a grim reminder of this legacy of impunity, coming just a few days …

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Traditional Medicine Struggles in Nigeria

WebHerbal medicines come in varying forms. Roots, stems, leaves and barks are boiled, crushed into powder or soaked in liquid such as water, alcohol or carbonated soft …

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America’s Preexisting Conditions

WebWe account for over 400,000 of the world’s two million deaths — one in five deaths globally, despite being only 4% of the world’s population. That means that …

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Putin’s War of the Mind

WebIn Vladimir Putin’s war of the mind, Semyon, 75, is still a crack shot for the other side. In 1971, he was the first psychiatrist to open fire on the Soviet Union’s …

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Liberia Has a Drug Problem. One ‘General’ Is Trying To Fix It With

WebThe drug use epidemic has been growing in Liberia over the past two years, particularly due to the low cost and availability of kush, which sells for as little as 50 cents …

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