A child receives a measles vaccination during WHO's post-disaster campaign in flood-affected provincesKabul 23 July 2014 – WHO and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) with other partners have completed a post-disaster measles vaccination campaign in provinces affected by severe flooding in April-May this year. Overall, 321 750 children aged...

Trainer Dr Paul Ley discusses wound classification with surgeons at the Emergency Hospital in KabulKabul 13 July 2014 – This week Emergency NGO is training 17 surgeons from 13 provinces on trauma care in Kabul, supported by WHO and the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO). Overall, 180 general and...

A child receiving a polio vaccine in Kandahar, Afghanistan Two new polio cases detected in Afghanistan Kabul 24 June 2014 – In collaboration with partners, WHO is supporting the Ministry of Public Health in immunizing 3.5 million children against polio in 13 provinces this week during subnational immunization days in the south, east, southeast and...

Kabul 5 June 2014 - WHO Afghanistan office, together with the Ministry of Public Health, facilitated a training for health care providers on gender mainstreaming in emergencies this week. Twenty-one health care professionals from Paktia province attended the training, including nurses, midwives, psychologists, doctors and vaccinators. “When I first conducted...

Kabul, 2 June 2014 – Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health and WHO celebrated the 2014 World No Tobacco Day on 1 June with the theme “raise taxes on tobacco”. Ministry officials, representatives of nongovernmental organizations and service providers attended the event that focused on the benefits of higher tobacco taxes for the health of the Afghan...

Many women lost their husbands in the landslide and face the burden of caring for their children alone18 May 2014 – People living in Abe Barak village in Badakhshan, north-east Afghanistan, faced destruction and devastation in their community when a landslide buried around 300 homes in up to 50 metres of mud, leaving many villagers with nothing.  Accounting...

Supplies delivered to flood-affected areas in AfghanistanKabul,12 May 2014 – Heavy rainfall since 24 April has resulted in flash floods in northern Afghanistan where 675 people have lost their lives and more than 16 000 people remain displaced. Recently, three more provinces have experienced flooding, bringing the number of people affected to 120...

One of the major health concerns during floods is the risk of communicable disease due to interruptions in safe water and sanitation services Heavy rainfall from 24 to 25 April 2014 resulted in flash floods across 10 provinces in northern, north-east and western Afghanistan. Initial reports indicate that Jawzjan province is the worst affected....

World Health Day, commemorating the founding of WHO, is celebrated on 7 April each year, but due to the elections was celebrated on 9 April 2014 this year in Kabul, Afghanistan. The theme of this year's day was vector-borne diseases. In her address, the Minister of Public Health H.E. Dr Suraya Dalil highlighted the health toll and economic burden...

The photographs have been produced with the support of the National Stop TB Partnership in Afghanistan and WHOThe photography exhibition "STOP TB - The Afghanistan Portraits" is an exhibition of portraits of people with TB taken by the international humanitarian photographer Laura Salvinelli in western Afghanistan. TB is a disease of poverty. In...