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It is well understood that humanitarian crises and displacement of people predispose women to poor reproductive health outcomes. Inci et al 1 have identified supply chain limitations, provider biases and differences in cultural and religious attitudes as key variables which influence the access women have to family planning services within the refugee setting. Operation ALLIED SOLACE provided the British Army an opportunity to provide logistic and humanitarian support to such a population relocated to a location known as The Village in Kosovo in the wake of the 2021 Afghanistan crisis.
Our team was aware at the outset that women’s health may be a difficult topic to discuss with Afghan women; therefore, a series of health engagement talks were planned and delivered on a voluntary basis. Here, issues surrounding female and reproductive health were outlined. This informal and gender-segregated setting also provided …
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Contributors JVR: design, data collection, data analysis, writing of the article. PW: data analysis, formatting.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.