Reproductive health care experiences and rights of displaced Afghan women, and intersecting factors influencing outcomes: a scoping review
Donya Eghrari, Nilab Hamidi, Nicola Creagh, Anna Ziersch, Lucio Naccarella · 2026
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Donya Eghrari and four colleagues map what is known about reproductive health care for Afghan women forced from their homes. Displacement piles new barriers onto old inequalities, and culturally blind services widen the harm. Their 2026 review searched six databases for studies from 2000 to 2024, on Afghan women in humanitarian or resettlement settings. Forty-two studies from eight countries survived screening. Themes were drawn out rather than forced into a preset frame.
Family planning and mother-and-baby outcomes dominated the literature. What helped or hurt included language and health literacy, money, cultural and religious norms, social ties, legal status, and how professionals communicated. Outcomes ran worse in camps and other humanitarian settings than in resettlement countries. Yet even where services exist, personal and structural hurdles block the door. The authors press for data broken down by origin and literacy, and for strategies that put women's autonomy at the centre.
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| CREATOR | Donya Eghrari, Nilab Hamidi, Nicola Creagh, Anna Ziersch, Lucio Naccarella |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74149 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |