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Drug addiction is mounting in Afghanistan as wives get hooked on the smoke their husbands exhale. A women-only treatment clinic opened last year in Kabul, where the clinic’s director estimates about one-third of the women in the city are addicted.
A Web site gives abuse victims a place to report their experiences anonymously and encourages them to make an official report. Filmmaker Angela Shelton leads the effort and plans to report her own abuse on April 29 in Asheville, N.C.
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation can be made to feel like clinical curiosities. But at the African Women’s Health Center at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, treatment is delivered with cultural understanding.