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'Voices From Afghanistan' Exhibit Profiled In 'The Washington Post'

"The Post's" Style section highlights the exhibit at the Library of Congress, which showcases some of the thousands of handwritten scrolls and letters sent in by listeners to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan. More
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Polio Cases Surge In Afghanistan

August 12, 2006

An Afghan child in Jalalabad receives apolio vaccination (epa)

August 12, 2006 -- Afghan health officials today said that the number of polio cases reported in the country has quadrupled this year.


They say that the surge has been almost entirely in southern provinces where the insurgency is fiercest.


The violence has, they say, made it difficult to establish health services in the region.


(AP)

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