Women's Health In Afghanistan Essay

Women’s Health in Afghanistan

Sumai Williams

I. The Problem Many people may not realize what women may go through on a daily basis. Women in Afghanistan are discriminated against and face oppression in their everyday lives. Oppression faced by women is a tremendous problem not only in Afghanistan but all over the world. One of the biggest problems in Afghanistan that needs to be addressed is women's health.
First let’s talk about how the rights of women in Afghanistan started to become restricted and banned. Before the Taliban rule, women were able to vote and go to college. They were able to wear what they felt comfortable in and could work. When the taliban came into rule, in early 1995, they banned women from doing a lot of things. One of the rights that were banned was a woman’s right to healthcare by men. Women did not have the right be have jobs let alone be a doctor. The type of schooling the doctors would go through were really a wasted effort. Medical schools in Kabul have no “textbooks, teaching slides or anatomy charts.” The Taliban “often

Women often have their baby being born already dead, which is combined with excessive bleeding. “Over half of births in Afghanistan — 65 percent — take place at home, contributing to low levels of vaccinations and a mortality rate that's still high” (“Afghan women largely lack healthcare, education”) because many hospitals were too far to travel to. One acting component to the lack of women’s health is that women are uneducated about it. If women were educated more on birth giving and the importance of not having a child under the age of 18, many deaths and miscarriages could be prevented. “92.9 percent of married women ages 15-19 are not using any method of contraception at all.” Women in urban areas tend to be more educated than women in rural areas. Also that with the rich women than poor