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Shamshullah and Wajid bring life-saving polio vaccines to families’ doorsteps in Kandahar
Wajid vaccinates children at a Kandahar park during a Friday “re-visit” campaign day. WHO/J.JalaliKabul 3 July 2017 – Afghanistan is closer than ever to eradicating polio with only four cases reported this year from Kandahar, Helmand and Kunduz provinces. The progress Afghanistan has witnessed in its efforts to wipe out the crippling disease has been to...
Tobacco kills up to half of its users – Accelerated efforts needed to tackle Afghanistan’s tobacco crisis
Kabul 18 June 2017 – Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health, WHO and partners marked the 2017 World No Tobacco Day in Kabul today under this year’s global campaign theme “Tobacco – a threat to development”. Ministry officials, UN and NGO representatives and the media attended the event that focused on the harms of the tobacco crisis for the...
WHO and ECHO scale up Afghanistan’s blood banks to guarantee safer transfusions
Gulab Shah donates blood at the Herat Regional Hospital. Photo: WHO/S.RamoKabul 14 June 2017 – With the support of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), WHO supports Afghanistan’s blood banks to ensure safe blood transfusions that save Afghan lives. In the past year, WHO has...
WHO-supported mobile clinics bring health services to vulnerable Afghans
Afghan women at a mobile clinic in an IDP camp in Kabul. Photo: WHO/S.RamoKabul 12 June 2017 – A razor blade, plastic sheet, bar of soap and a piece of clean string. These are the only items inside a tiny clean delivery kit that Kawkaba, 45, uses when she delivers babies in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the outskirts of...
Treating trauma and the wounds of war in Helmand
Nazo stands by his grandson at the Emergency Hospital in Helmand. WHO/G.Elham “Without this hospital, I would have lost my life” 8 June 2017 – 60-year-old Nazo stands at the bedside of his grandson Rahmatullah, 19, who was badly injured by a roadside bomb in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Rahmatullah lost both...
Over 9.5 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Afghanistan this week
Kabul, 15 May 2017 - The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, together with WHO and UNICEF, launched today the second spring round of National Immunization Days (NIDs) for polio eradication in 2017. Over 9.5 million children under the age of 5 will be vaccinated against polio and more than 5.7 million children aged 2 to 5 will be given...
WHO supports new training centre in Kabul to reduce maternal and newborn deaths
Kabul 15 May 2017 - With the support of WHO, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and Kabul Medical University (KMU) inaugurated a centre for pre-service training in Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) at the Shahr-Ara Teaching Hospital in Kabul in April 2017 to strengthen care provided to...
Slow Down to Save Lives: Health and traffic authorities call for urgent efforts to save lives on Afghanistan’s roads
Dr Dauod Altaf, WHO Officer-in-Charge, delivers a speech at the eventKabul 8 May 2017 – The national Road Safety Week was launched today at an event in Kabul to draw public attention to the urgency of decreasing fatalities and injuries on Afghanistan’s roads resulting from speeding and reckless driving. The event was attended by representatives...
Expanding access to vaccines is crucial for saving thousands of children’s lives across Afghanistan
9-month-old Setayeah received a measles vaccine during the Immunization Week launch event in Kabul. WHO/S.RamoKabul 23 April 2017 – World Immunization Week was launched today in Afghanistan by the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF, together with national and international partners supporting immunization services in the country. The...
Almost 7 million children to be vaccinated against polio in high-risk districts around Afghanistan
A girl shows her pinky finger marked with indelible ink after receiving the polio vaccineKabul, 17 April 2017 - The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, together with WHO and UNICEF, launched today a Sub-National Immunization Days (SNID) campaign to vaccinate over 6.8 million children under the age of 5 against polio in high-risk districts...
