TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-conflict-women-health', FOCUS by Elise Blanchard
In this picture taken on March 28, 2021, a mother, who travelled from a Taliban-controlled area in the frontlines of Nawa in violence-wracked southern Afghanistan, holds her 8-month-old baby who is ill and malnourished during treatment at the therapeutic feeding unit of NGO "Action contre La Faim" in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province. - Since the drawdown of foreign forces began in Afghanistan -- now all but complete -- and a subsequent escalation of Taliban violence, there have been signs that already limited maternity care could be even further restricted, as thousands of women are displaced and roads become increasingly dangerous. (Photo by Elise BLANCHARD / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-conflict-women-health', FOCUS by Elise Blanchard