![]() "For a country that has as much international attention as Afghanistan but still continues to have such poor child and maternal mortality rates and malnutrition levels is really shocking."Īfghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, second only to Niger in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the U.N. "There has been a lot of focus on the insurgency and the military campaign but in the meantime a humanitarian crisis has been allowed to persist," George Graham, Save the Children's senior policy manager, told AlertNet by phone from London. Launching an emergency appeal to boost its work treating malnourished children, supporting clinics and distributing household essentials, the charity said the scale of the crisis was being "hidden", with global attention concentrated on the conflict due to the large presence of foreign troops. ![]() ![]() NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - The world is ignoring the daily deaths of more than 850 Afghan children from treatable diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia, focusing on fighting the insurgency rather than providing humanitarian relief, Save the Children said on Wednesday.Īccording to the British charity, a child dies in the impoverished, war-torn nation every two minutes - mainly due to poverty, malnutrition and a lack of basic healthcare - and Afghan children have the worst chance in the world of surviving to their fifth birthday. ![]()
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