(WOMENSENEWS)-The lack of access to breast cancer screening and treatment has been highlighted with the introduction of two bills in Congress that, if made law, would improve women’s access to timely, quality mammograms and to prescription drugs to treat breast cancer.
(WOMENSENEWS)-The ban on growing opium poppies has left impoverished Afghan farmers destitute and they are trading, selling and marrying off daughters to repay their debts and buy food, according to U.N. and Taliban officials.
The ban imposed by the fundamentalist Taliban movement that controls most of the country has meant there was no harvest of the poppies, a major source of credit and income for farmers in the war-torn country. Coupled with a devastating drought, the ban has resulted in desperate choices, according to The Guardian in London.
