{
  "id": 2000544,
  "title": "'When we tell them pregnancies require regular medical checkups, they scoff': Afghan women's health is put at risk by the Taliban",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/when-we-tell-them-pregnancies-require-regular-medical-checkups-they",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-19T18:01:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2026/08/19/i-worked-day-and-night-to-become-a-doctor-i-was-so-close-afghan-women-s-health-is-put-at-risk-by-the-taliban_6756683_183.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'Voices of Afghan Women' (4/6). Only women can care for women, yet Afghanistan is no longer training female doctors, nurses, or midwives. As a result, women's access to healthcare is becoming increasingly difficult, sometimes with tragic consequences, and undermines their mental health, as they told our special correspondent in Kabul.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}