The phrase "afflicted upon" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct usage would typically involve "afflicted" being used without "upon," as in "afflicted by" or "afflicted with."
Example: "The community was afflicted by a severe drought that lasted for months."
Alternatives: "imposed on" or "visited upon."
From the earliest post-invasion times, Indigenous children were more than just the innocent bystanders to the violence afflicted upon their elders.
The external factors were the violence and harassment afflicted upon the women, discrimination caused by social structures, and the legal framework within which the sex work industry operates.
This consisted of emotional (18%), physical (22%), sexual (45%) and socio-economic (14%) violence, indicating that most victims had to endure multiple forms of violence that were afflicted upon them in a combined way.
They involve first appreciating the many assaults afflicted daily upon our skin, then changing some common habits and replacing them with daily skin-protective and, if needed, healing measures.
SAD also confers a substantial economic burden upon afflicted individuals and society in terms of work days missed and health care costs [ 370, 371].
To them war is a calamity and a social disaster, whether it is afflicted by one nation upon another or conceived of as afflicting humanity as a whole.
This interesting woman of the first society of her native village, had been twenty years afflicted with a tumor upon the left side of the face.
These patients are frequently afflicted by severe deconditioning upon admission and are prone to in-hospital complications.
But the pope made do with a barely audible prayer in Latin and a petition on paper, which he slipped between the stones, asking: "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, hear the cry of the afflicted, the fearful, the bereft; send your peace upon this Holy Land, upon the Middle East, upon the entire human family".
She was much afflicted by migraines, and their influence upon her work was the subject of journalism and medical research.
Woo Pun, aged 41, a shoemaker of Pwanyü, have been afflicted with a large unshapen tumor upon the left side of his neck.
