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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 13:34:18 EDT
AFGHAN LEADER MEETS WITH U.S. HEALTH SECRETARY
Transitional Administration Chairman Karzai met on 21 April with visiting U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who promised that the United States will help modernize Afghanistan's hospitals and clinics and provide training and education to doctors and health-services workers, Radio Afghanistan reported. Thompson also pledged financial support to combat diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. Thompson and Afghan health officials opened the improved and refurbished Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital in Kabul on 21 April as part of the U.S. administration's commitment to assist the people of Afghanistan, especially in the area of maternal and child health, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said Afghanistan "ranks as the fourth-worst country in the world" in terms of mortality rates for children under the age of five, and Karzai has emphasized the dire need to improve Afghanistan's health sector (see "RFE/RL Newsline,
" 8 April 2003). AT
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