VA Struggles To Provide Better Care For Increasing Numbers Of Younger, Female Veterans

New patients using Veterans Affairs health services are more likely to be younger and women. The Associated Press reports on a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsville, W.Va., that is increasingly seeing women in their twenties who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The hospital sees nearly twice as many women it did before the Sept. 11 attacks…

New York Times Profiles Afghani Maternal Health Advocate

The New York Times profiles Pashtoon Azfar, the director of Afghanistan’s Institute of Health Sciences, who works for a nonprofit group from Johns Hopkins University that focuses on women and children’s health, and “also manages to serve as president of the Afghan Midwives Association.” Azfar was the “star” of a recent

Critics Of New Afghan Law Say It Legalizes Rape Of Wives

Some human-rights groups and Afghan lawmakers are criticizing a new law they say makes it legal for men in Afghanistan’s Shiite community to rape their wives, the AP/Denver Post reports. The law is intended to regulate family life for Shiites, who represent about 20% of Afghanistan’s 30 million people.

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