Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice

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Afghan women turned away from male doctors under Taliban restriction

Enforces the reported ban on male doctors treating women

Farida, 37, returned from Iran to Herat this year with damaged molars and little money. In early July, a dentist in the city's Bakrabad district said several teeth had to come out, then staff told her an order from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice barred male dentists from treating women. Three months later, her care was still unfinished.

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