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BBC OS: 2022/01/11 16:06 GMT: UN aid appeal for Afghanistan

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UN aid appeal for Afghanistan

2022/01/11 16:06 GMT

2022/01/11 16:06 GMT: UN aid appeal for Afghanistan

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The UN has launched its largest single country aid appeal ever to Afghanistan

The UN has issued an urgent call for aid for Afghanistan where one million children are at risk from severe malnourishment. We hear from a program officer for Women for Women International in Nangahar province about the increasingly desperate situation in the country.

We’ll look at how Novak Djokovic’s visa dispute in Australia has galvanised anti-vaccination activists although the player has never explicitly supported them. Our misinformation reporter will be telling us about the posts by the groups she is monitoring online. 

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We’ll bring together two doctors who have been working in maternity wards throughout the pandemic to discuss what it has been like on the wards, where women are often alone and sometimes critically ill prior to giving birth.

(Photo: Afghan families receive food aid distributed by the German government in Kabul, Afghanistan, 06 December 2021.Credit: STRINGER/EPA)

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