{"id":10130,"date":"2019-10-14T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/oct\/14\/killed-in-front-of-my-eyes-brutal-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-mental-health"},"modified":"2019-10-14T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T06:00:16","slug":"they-were-all-killed-in-front-of-my-eyes-the-brutal-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10130","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They were all killed in front of my eyes&#8217;: the brutal cost of war in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a country where decades of conflict have taken a profound toll on mental health, professional support is scarce<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch has raised alarms over the lack of mental health support in wartorn Afghanistan, where more than half of the population is experiencing psychological distress.<\/p>\n<p>The advocacy group said that, despite the high prevalence of psychological and mental health conditions, the Afghan government is failing to provide adequate help, with fewer than 10% of the country\u2019s population receiving assistance.<\/p>\n<p>HRW cited a 2018 EU survey that said the overwhelming majority of the country\u2019s population (85%) have seen or been involved in at least one traumatic event in their lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/oct\/14\/killed-in-front-of-my-eyes-brutal-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-mental-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country where decades of conflict have taken a profound toll on mental health, professional support is scarceHuman Rights Watch has raised alarms over the lack of mental health support in wartorn Afghanistan, where more than half of the population&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,87,59,566,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conflict-and-arms","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions\/10131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}