Kabul, 30 October 2018 –Three new polio cases have been reported in the south and east regions of Afghanistan. A 5-month old female child from Paroon district of Nuristan, a 24-month-old female child from Nawzad district of Helmand, and a 14 months old female child from Miwand district of Kandahar have been paralysed by the polio wild virus.  The...

October 2018, Kabul – New mothers in Mir Bacha Kot district in Kabul have been receiving a new tool to plan their pregnancy and protect their newborn babies. Their lives are made easier by the new maternal and child health  home-based handbook for Afghanistan. More than 10 000 of the handbooks were distributed when it was introduced in the...

Kabul, 18 September 2018 – A new polio case has been reported in Kandahar. A 14-month-old boy from Loyawala will be permanently paralysed by polio. This is the 14th case in Afghanistan, and the 9th case in the southern region. The Minister of Public Health Dr Ferozuddin Feroz expressed concern that Afghanistan now has the highest number of polio...

28 August 2018, Kabul – Dr Sadiq is examining the feet of his colleague Mr Dauod. This is the first time they are learning to look for changes to the feet of diabetic patients. Dr Sadiq and Dauod came from the primary health care centre in Kandahar, they are taking turns to learn how to check for diabetic foot that would require medical...

KABUL, Afghanistan, 1 September 2018 – The Government of Afghanistan, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have today launched a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect children 13.8 million children aged 9 months to 10 years against...

Kabul, 18 August 2018 - Since fighting broke out on 10 August in Ghazni, Central Afghanistan, World Health Organization (WHO) has provided 1 trauma kits and 3 Interagency Emergency Health kit to support emergency health and medical services to treat the wounded at the provincial hospital, supporting 3000 patients who urgently need health services in...

Kabul, 5 August 2018 – The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan, together with UNICEF and WHO, will launch its third national polio vaccination campaign for 2018. Over the next five days, around 9.9 million children under the age of five will be targeted for vaccination against polio across the country. However, 1.2 million children from areas...

Kabul, 2 August 2018 - In Afghanistan, an increasing amount of health workers have been killed in attacks targeting health facilities and personnel in the first half of 2018, compared to the previous six months, reports Health Cluster. A total number of seven health personnel were killed January and June this year, compared to three who were...

The new emergency ward was inaugurated 30 June 2018Kabul, 9 July 2018 – WHO has planned and supported the upgrading of trauma care services at the Provincial Hospital of Kapisa, a high-risk conflict-affected province. The project, which started in November 2017, included construction and equipping of the emergency ward and the operation theatre and...

Kabul, 4 July 2018 Doctor listening to a tuberculosis patient’s lungsWith the support of the Government of Japan,  World Health Organization Afghanistan has contributed to the significant strengthening of Afghanistan’s capacity to detect and treat tuberculosis (TB), a potentially serious communicable disease, which continues to be a major public...