The EU extends its support to WHO and UNODC to further advance mental health and drug use disorder services delivery in Afghanistan. Photo credit: WHO/A. Karar 25 October 2023, Kabul, Afghanistan – The European Union (EU) has allocated an additional €10 million (equivalent to 800 million Afghani) to improve mental health and address drug use...

19 October 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan: An estimated 114,000 most affected people are in urgent need of life-saving health assistance following series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan between 7 and 15 October. The WHO-led health sector requires $7.9 million to ensure affected communities will be provided with essential health services in the...

Credit: Rada Akbar/WHO 18 August 2023, Kabul, Afghanistan – Launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), a new alert underscores the crucial importance of ramping up investment in health care services provision in Afghanistan, particularly in the underserved areas where the healthcare infrastructure is severely under-resourced and...

10 August 2023, Kandahar, Afghanistan – The World Health Organization (WHO), with financial support from the European Union (EU), transformed a 100-bed drug addiction treatment centre in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Centre's upgraded facilities are now better equipped to support Afghans in need on their path to recovery. The newly renovated centre...

9 May 2023 – Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) signs an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the provision of essential health services in underserved areas in the 11 provinces of Afghanistan. With the funds from QFFD, WHO will procure pre-qualified medicine for primary health care and facilitate delivery and distribution...

26 April 2023, Kabul, Afghanistan – The Government of Japan has pledged one million USD to the World Health Organization (WHO) for a project to strengthen Afghanistan’s capacity for preparedness, detection and response to infectious diseases following natural disasters. The funds will strengthen and expand the capacity of the national disease...

Dr Ghafoori administering polio vaccine to a nomad child in Samangan province of Afghanistan in 2002 27 April 2023 – When Dr Abdul Rahman Ghafoori began working with WHO’s polio eradication programme in  2000, polio was endemic in 30 countries across the world and WHO’s Afghanistan programme was tackling the virus on multiple fronts.   “Surveillance for...

Kabul, Afghanistan, 8 March 2023— On International Women’s Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Afghanistan honours the sacrifices, resilience and bravery of female health workers who continue to deliver health services to the Afghan population, including women and girls, in the midst of the challenging country context. 

6 March 2023, Kabul – The World Health Organization (WHO), through generous support from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), launched a new emergency medical department in Mirwais Regional Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  The European Union delegation to Afghanistan visited Mirwais Regional Hospital's new...

Details of all AFP cases are copiously recorded in Surveillance Registry books. When a mother brought her young son to a clinic in Paghman, a town not far from the Afghan capital Kabul, Spogmai, a nurse on duty at the time, paid special attention. “The mother was complaining that her son was weak and that the weakness had happened suddenly, so I...