FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

HUMAN RIGHTS Previous Volume 358:2201-2203 May 22, 2008 Number 21 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear

Afghanistan, a country with 32 million residents, has been engaged in constant conflict for the past 30 years. This instability and insecurity have resulted in a stark economic climate and a very low life expectancy. More than half of the people in Afghanistan live in poverty, and 40% of the adult labor force is unemployed. Life expectancy is 44 years, and annual mortality is 20 per 1000 residents.¹ The situation in Afghanistan has been grave for more than a generation. Since the 1980s, the country has endured Soviet occupation, civil war, Taliban rule (which means educational and employment restrictions for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Source Information

Dr. Raj is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston. Ms. Gomez is a women's rights and political lobby project manager at Medica Mondiale, Cologne, Germany. Dr. Silverman is an associate professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

This article has been cited by other articles:

• (2008). All you need to read in the other general journals. BMJ 336: 1212-1212 [Full Text]