The final evacuation planes have left Kabul airport, and Afghanistan’s government have ceded power to the Taliban.

Amongst the international community, worries about what that transition of power means for the people of Afghanistan have centred around the rights of women, access to education for the whole population, and the continuing prosperity of the country… However what this means for health is still uncertain.

Nadia Akseer is an Afghan scientist and epidemiologist, now working at John's Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and who has published extensively the health of her home country

Reading list;
Achieving maternal and child health gains in Afghanistan
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)30002-X/fulltext

Association of Exposure to Civil Conflict With Maternal Resilience and Maternal and Child Health and Health System Performance in Afghanistan
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2754253

Coverage and inequalities in maternal and child health interventions in Afghanistan
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-3406-1

Geospatial inequalities and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Afghanistan
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30025-1/fulltext