So what are some of your study's findings then?

Basically, the study shows the devastating, the catastrophic effects of this ban and, and, and what it will do to women and, and children's health.

So first, we do three things.

First, we show that the ban will result in a significant shrinking of the health workforce, as you can imagine.

Uh, there will be some substitution by male providers, so some of the vaci- some of the openings that will be left by preventing these female health workers from entering the workforce will be filled by male providers.

But even under the best case scenario, even with some substitution, there will still be an overall decline in the size of the nursing and midwifery workforce.

So just to give you a sense of the numbers, back in twenty twenty-two, which is when we have some recent numbers on the, on the size of the health workforce, we had around twelve thousand nurses and midwives in the workforce.

What do you think that your modeling can't tell us about women's experience accessing, uh, these maternal and child health services in Afghanistan at the moment?