The World Health Organization announced that last year (2022), two children were left disabled due to polio in Afghanistan. This figure is the lowest number of...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says more than one million cases of malaria were reported in 34 provinces of Afghanistan in 2022. Marking World Malaria...
Japan has pledged $1 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) for a project to strengthen Afghanistan’s capacity for preparedness, detection and response to infectious diseases...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Monday marked World Hemophilia Day in Kabul under the theme “Access For All”. Mohammad Ishaq Sahebzada, deputy minister of...
A Chinese woman has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans, the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
About one in six adults globally have experienced infertility at least once in their life, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Monday,...
Two hundred children with cleft palates and cleft lips are being operated on free of charge on the occasion of the holy month of Ramazan by...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report released Thursday that 45.1 percent of cases of acute respiratory infections in Afghanistan involve children. Since October...
Chile detected the first case of bird flue in a human, the country’s health ministry reported on Wednesday. The case was detected in a 53-year-old man...
Brigadier General Dr. Abdul Wali Ahmadzai and a team of specialists at the Kabul military hospital have successfully operated on a man from Helmand who was...
Local officials say the construction of Malil and Mashfi Basic Healthcare Center in Nurgram district of Nuristan province is complete and the clinic is now operational....
The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) in cooperation with Germany’s Peace Village plans to take 80 Afghan children to Germany for medical treatment on Thursday. These...
Scientists have uncovered new genetic evidence from the market in Wuhan, China, where COVID cases were first detected in late 2019. Scientific America reports the findings...
The Minister of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Dr. Qalandar Ebad left Kabul on Thursday for a six-day visit to Qatar. Leading...
The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, in collaboration with international partners, launched its first national polio vaccination campaign for 2023 on...
Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said on Saturday. A...
Researchers from the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the UK have found the right amount of vitamin...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has announced it will build two hundred clinics throughout the country next year. In an exclusive...
A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth complications, despite maternal mortality rates dropping by a third in 20 years, the United Nations...
The mental health and wellbeing of seven million children is at risk for years to come after last week’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Save...