American Photography 38 Winners

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Ruqia Jan, 11 yrs old, sits on a bed in the emergency room at the Indira Ghandi Children’s hospital in Kabul suffering from severe malnutrition and diabetes. The Big Story. Afghanistan nightmare: A humanitarian crisis that threatens to dwarf all others. Following the U.S. withdrawal, desperation amid food and medicine shortages. October 2021. KABUL: October 25 : Ruqia Jan, 11 yrs old, sits on a bed in the emergency room at the Indira Ghandi Children’s hospital in Kabul suffering from severe malnutrition and diabetes. The reason she was days from dying was simple, Ruqia's parents Massouma and Hussein could not afford the medicine she needs, or enough food for their whole family. She has had diabetes since she was 6 years old but the fact that her parents who are extremely poor couldn’t afford to treat her disease caused her extreme health issues. The family have 7 children,they traveled many hours to Kabul from Balkh province near Mazar -e-Sharif. Afghanistan’s crumbling health service buckles under the combined strain of winter and hunger.

Drug Use in Kabul. July 2021. In Kabul a policeman shines a flashlight on a man suspected of overdosing as drug addicts are seen smoking heroin and methamphetamine in an area where hundreds of users shelter live in squalid conditions at Pule Sukhta, under a bridge in western Kabul.