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Promoting women’s health worldwide
The ICRC cares for all the victims of conflict but it adapts this care to meet their needs. Specific services for women affected by conflict include support for rape victims, medical care for women in places of detention, antenatal and postnatal care for mothers and babies, the provision of hygiene requisites/training and rehabilitation for female mine victims.

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Afghanistan. Kabul. An ICRC hygiene promoter teaches hygiene awareness to women living in the poorest parts of Kabul.

The disruption of traditional living patterns can have drastic consequences for the availability, safety, and privacy of hygiene and sanitation. Armed conflict may aggravate economic deprivation and extreme living conditions, increasing the spread of diseases such as typhoid, dysentery and cholera.




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