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. 2022 Mar-Apr:63:e159-e160.
doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2021.11.018. Epub 2021 Nov 24.

Children are in need of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan

Modesto Leite Rolim Neto  1 , Nadia Nara Rolim Lima  2 , Sávio Samuel Feitosa Machado  3 , José Péricles Magalhães Vasconcelos  3 , Sionara Melo Figueiredo de Carvalho  3 , Jucier Gonçalves Junior  4 , Cícera Rejane Tavares de Oliveira  5 , Juliane Dos Anjos de Paula  6 , Uilna Natercia Soares Feitosa Pedro  6
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Children are in need of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan

Modesto Leite Rolim Neto et al. J Pediatr Nurs. 2022 Mar-Apr.

Abstract

Almost 60% of Afghans forced to flee their homes in 2021 because of the Taliban advance are children. They are starving. It is estimated that approximately one million will suffer from severe, life-threatening malnutrition by the end of 2021. Many have been separated from their families by the chaos that has ensued in Afghanistan after Taliban took power, and hundreds of them were driven out of the country unaccompanied. How must these children have been when they suddenly found themselves without their relatives during the chaotic crisis, or when they boarded an evacuation flight? It is vital to identify them quickly. Too many children witnessed scenes that no child should see. Children and teenagers are dealing with anxiety and fear and desperately need help and mental health care. This is the sad reality facing Afghan children, regardless of ongoing political developments and changes in government.

Keywords: Afghanistan; Children; Life risk; Malnutrition; Violence.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.