Select your language
WHO and partners call for efforts to strengthen suicide prevention in Afghanistan
Ms Hajar from the Afghanistan Youth Network discusses plans for Afghanistan's first national suicide prevention strategy with other panelists from NGOs, the Afghan government and UN. Download WHO's first global report on suicide prevention "Preventing suicide: a global imperative" Kabul 10 September 2014 – World Suicide Prevention Day was marked...
National polio vaccination campaign successfully completed in Afghanistan
Child receiving an oral polio vaccineKABUL 3 September 2014 – WHO, together with the Ministry of Public Health and UNICEF, has successfully completed a nationwide polio immunization campaign in all districts of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. The national immunizations days (NIDs) campaign was carried out during three days between 17 and 19 August. A...
WHO highlights viral hepatitis as a silent killer in Afghanistan
Kabul 28 July 2014 – Today the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners observe World Hepatitis Day to increase awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis, its modes of transmission and the diseases that it causes. Viral hepatitis – a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E – affects millions of people worldwide, causing...
Post-disaster measles campaign completed in flood-affected provinces
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...
WHO supports training on mass casualty management and war trauma as number of civilian casualties rises
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...
WHO and Ministry of Public Health launch polio vaccination campaign
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...
WHO conducts training for health care providers from Paktia province on gender mainstreaming in emergencies
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...
Afghanistan celebrates 2014 World No Tobacco Day: calls for higher tobacco taxes to fight death and disease
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...
Badakhshan landslide: Mental health services and gender-sensitive relief among WHO’s key concerns
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 for...
WHO strengthens health care provision in flood-affected areas amidst challenges
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 000people remain displaced. Recently, three more provinces have experienced flooding, bringing the number of people affected to...
