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As of December 2022, Afghan women are once again barred from attending Universities in Afghanistan.

Unfortunately, two of the most important fields - medical education and medical care - are fundamentally affected by this new ban.
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More than forty years of non-stop war has decimated medical care, especially for women.

A group of roughly 50 Afghan doctors in Afghanistan and from abroad are now organising online lectures for more than 2,500 female medical students in Afghanistan online. 2/3
The lectures (clinical and basic science) are held in English via ZOOM.

If you are a physician and want to help us giving lectures to medical students in their first until last year of medical school, please DM me or @Afgneurosurgeon.

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@pamconstable1 From your @washingtonpost article:
“The Taliban wants to segregate women. So it’s training female doctors.”
“This makes me feel like we have done something useful, that all my years of fighting were worth it,” said a Taliban security guard..
washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/…
Taliban are NOT training women to become doctors:

Taliban banned #Aghanwomen from attending universities and from getting higher education in Afghanistan, according to the letter released by the Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education. cbsnews.com/news/taliban-b…
I have to ask: just exactly how many #AfghanWomen did you interview before you published this story? I think you need to do more research: globalcitizen.org/en/content/afg…
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