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WHO project improves health care sector’s response to gender-based violence in Afghanistan
Zahra, midwife from Bamyan, was trained on gender-based violence. Photo WHO/S. RamoKabul, 18 March 2018 – A WHO project has brought about positive changes in Afghan health care providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practice in providing services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), a recent evaluation finds.The end-line evaluation of a...
Two New Cases of Polio Confirmed in Kunar and Kandahar
Kabul, March 14, 2018 Two new polio cases have been confirmed in the past week in Kunar and Kandahar provinces, bring the total number of confirmed polio cases in Afghanistan to 5 during 2018. The cases occurred in Ghaziabad and Shahwalikot districts. Both children – who are now paralysed for life – have never been vaccinated against polio. Both cases...
WHO Afghanistan facilitates national survey to assess the risk factors contributing to noncommunicable diseases
WHO Afghanistan staff. Photo WHO AfghanistanKabul 13 March 2018 – WHO Afghanistan supports a survey to assess risk factors associated with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the country. The survey will be conducted from March to May 2018. The STEP survey is conducted with the support of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and...
Around 9.9 million children to be vaccinated against polio across the country this week
Kabul 12 March 2018 Today the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, together with UNICEF and WHO, is launching the first national campaign for polio eradication in 2018. Over the next five days, around 9.9 million children under the age of five will be vaccinated against polio in all provinces of Afghanistan and more than 8.9 million children...
Polio vaccination, again?
Mansour, Shah Maqsoud and Nadia work as a polio vaccinator team in Kabul. Photo: WHO/Tuuli Hongisto In Afghanistan, frontline health workers explain to parents why the polio vaccine must be delivered multiple times Kabul 15 February 2018 – “It’s easy for the boys. They are young and strong,” laughs Nadia. She has just climbed hundreds of steps to the...
6.1 million children in the high risk areas of the country need to receive their second dose of polio vaccine in less than two weeks
Press Release Kabul, February 12, 2018 Today marks the first day in a polio vaccination campaign that will be carried out in the provinces of which are deemed to be at particularly high risk for children. About 6.1 children in 23 provinces will be vaccinated. The timing of the campaign, which follows a round that ended two weeks ago, is planned...
6.1 million children to be vaccinated against polio this week
Kabul, January 29, 2018 The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, together with WHO and UNICEF, launched a Sub-National Immunization Days (SNID) campaign today to vaccinate over 6.1 million children under the age of 5 against polio, in high-risk districts in 21 provinces of Afghanistan. The campaign will be conducted in all provinces of...
Afghanistan introduces rotavirus vaccine to protect infants and young children against severe diarrhoea
At the launch ceremony, Minister of Public Health, H.E. Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz delivered the first dose of the vaccine to a child KABUL, Afghanistan, 27 January 2018 – The Government of Afghanistan today introduced rotavirus vaccine to prevent the spread of rotavirus, the most common cause of severe and fatal diarrhoea among infants and young children...
Female polio workers reaching every last child
16 January 2017 – I meet Zainab in front of a busy park full of playing children. She and a team of female polio vaccinators kneel in the middle of a noisy group of children and start vaccinating the children one by one with confident, quick moves. One of the team members hands out orange and green balloons after marking the children’s fingers in...
First round of polio vaccination in Shahwalikot completed
Kabul, 10 January 2018 Toby Lanzer, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator released a statement today announcing that health authorities, with support from UNICEF and WHO, today completed the first of three polio vaccination campaigns in Shahwalikot (Kandahar province) and in the neighbouring districts of Miyanshin and Nesh, reaching 43,000...
