Community members bring their children for measles vaccination as part of the 2nd phase of the nationwide campaign, strengthening protection across the country. Photo Credit: WHO Afghanistan 18 November 2025, Kabul, Afghanistan – The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in collaboration with the National Expanded Programme on Immunization (NEPI) in Afghanistan, have successfully concluded the second phase of a nationwide measles vaccination campaign. The 10-day second phase, which started on 29 October, reached 8 355 446 children aged 6 months to 10 years with one dose of the measles vaccine across 17 hot-weather provinces, achieving 91.7% coverage of the more than 9 million children targeted. In addition, 3 953 961 children aged 0 to 10 years received one dose of bivalent oral polio vaccine across 5 provinces in the south and one province in the southeast. Building on the first phase of the nationwide measles...