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The World Health Organization has been active in Afghanistan since 1960. WHO's main goal is to improve the health status of Afghanistan's people.
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Dr Sima Samar joins the Stop TB Afghanistan - Afghanistan
Kabul March 2011 – Dr Sima Samar, a well-known human
rights activist, politician and women rights supporter has
joined the Stop TB partnership - Afghanistan, as Chairperson of
its Coordinating Board. Dr Samar is also the Chairperson of the
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. From 2005 to
2009, she was the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in
Sudan. She is a medical doctor and obtained her degree in
medicine in 1982 from Kabul University.
After living in exile for nearly two decades because of the
conflict in Afghanistan, Dr Samar returned to her homeland in
2001 to assume a cabinet post in the Afghan Transitional
Administration led by Hamid Karzai. In the interim government,
she served as Deputy President and then as Minister for Women's
Affairs. In 2008, on the eve of International Human Rights Day,
Dr Samar received the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award; in
addition to numerous other awards she has received from around
the world.
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Afghanistan commemorates World TB Day, March 2011
Kabul - 29 March, 2011. “Women and children, the
vulnerable segments of the population, should be the focus of
our fight against tuberculosis in Afghanistan now”, said Dr Surryaya Dalil, acting Minister of Public Health, while
addressing the main event of World TB Day held at the Ministry
of Public Health building in Kabul. The ceremony was well
attended by tuberculosis patients, activists, health workers,
national and international partner organizations, school
children, media and parliamentarians. Dr Dalil said that
drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis may become a major
challenge as treatment of such cases was very expensive. She
highlighted the importance of vaccination for children,
developing a comprehensive package of services for women
affected by tuberculosis based on nationwide research.
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Expression of Interest (EOI) MoPH
Afghanistan CCM has planned to submit a proposal for Global Fund
to fights against Tuberculosis (TB) as well as the Health System
Strengthening (HSS) of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan CCM hereby announces Expression of Interest (EOI)
for Principle Recipient for Global Fund Round 10.
Call for expression of interest for Principle Recipients (PRs)
for Global Fund R10 Tuberculosis (TB) and Health System
Strengthening (HSS)
The Global Fund to Fights AIDs, TB and Malaria (GFATM) is a
multi- billion- dollar International Financing mechanism
intended to help advance the fight against AIDs, TB and Malaria
by dramatically increasing the availability of funding for
practical health initiatives. Funded activities include both
piloting of new innovative programs and scaling up of existing
interventions.
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Ministry of
Public Health and WHO launch “Comprehensive ArcGIS training
programme for public health experts and data managers of
Afghanistan”
April, 2010
 On 12 April 2010 WHO and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)-APHI
completed their first comprehensive training on the Geographical
Information System (GIS). To bring disease surveillance systems
to the next level, both local and international public health
officials must take advantage of advances in information
technology. Disease Early Warning System (DEWS) Afghanistan and
its partners WHO, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
started to roll the ball and initiated the process of training
public health professionals in the field and improving disease
surveillance in the country.
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Afghanistan
celebrates the World Health Day
7 April 2010
World Health Day is marked on 7 April each year. The theme for
this year focused on “Urbanization and Health”. Afghanistan
joined World Health Day 2010 with efforts being stepped up to
address urban health issues. This year’s health-related events
and activities are taking place in six cities (Kabul, Jalalabad,
Kandahar, Herat, Kunduza and Mazar-e-Sharif) as people and
organizations join the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
campaign “1000 cities 1000 lives”.
The main ceremony in the capital was held at Wazir Akbar Khan
Hospital. H.E. Mr M. Karim Khalili, Vice President of
Afghanistan was the chief guest at the occasion. In his
address, H.E. Vice President highlighted the importance of this
year’s themes and the challenges being posed by urbanization in
Afghanistan. H.E. Dr Suraya Dalil, Acting Minister of Public
Health urged all development partners to make urban health a
priority and emphasized the need for intersectoral collaboration
to meet the challenges of urbanization.
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International
Women's Day
8 March 2010
The WHO country office in Afghanistan along with all the country
offices celebrated International Women’s Day on 8 March 2010.
The theme of this year’s Day was Equal rights, equal
opportunities: Progress for all, which is in perfect
alignment with Article 1 of the WHO Constitution, which states
that the objective of WHO shall be the attainment by all peoples
of the highest possible standard of health. Health policies and
programmes must address gender inequalities if they are to
improve women’s and men’s health and achieve health for all. The
Day recognizes women for their achievements without regard to
national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political
divisions. It is an occasion to look back on past struggles and
accomplishments, and more importantly, to look ahead to the
untapped potential and opportunities that await future
generations of women. The Regional Office and country offices
sent SMS to all staff to celebrate the Day and in Afghanistan
and elsewhere small gifts were distributed by colleagues to
fellow staff.
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P for polio or
progress and peace
 “We
can do it and it must be done” stressed Mr Peter Graaff,
Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the
launch of the first polio immunization campaign 2010.
During three days, 19,000 health
workers travel from house to house in fourteen provinces
to reach 2.8 million children under five
years old in southern, south-eastern, western and eastern
Afghanistan. The immunization drive is part of an ongoing
effort to eradicate polio in Afghanistan,
which is together with Pakistan, India and Nigeria the only
country still affected by the disease.
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