More than one million children are expected to receive polio vaccinations in the fourth round of the current campaign which is set to start on Monday...
The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Wednesday said it had confirmed a single case of monkeypox virus infection in a man who had recently traveled...
Health officials in the northern province of Kunduz said Sunday that the infectious disease claimed the lives of eight people last (solar) year while 1,700 others ...
U.S. health officials on Friday said they are investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children, including five reported deaths, updating a nationwide...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform...
Giant online retailer Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will end its paid time-off policy for employees with COVID-19 from May 2, the company told U.S.-based staff on Saturday....
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has announced on Friday that the organization has paid the salaries of at least 26,000 health workers since the collapse...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the rising incidence of measles in the country, saying that the provinces of Herat, Kunduz and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are holding a high-level meeting in Qatari capital Doha on interim priorities for the health sector in Afghanistan over...
High-ranking United Nations officials, who visited Kabul, have expressed concern about the situation of malnourished children in Afghanistan. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency...
More than 1.2 million children aged 6 to 59 months are earmarked to be vaccinated during the current measles vaccination campaign in Afghanistan, the World Health...
United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has expressed concern over the plight of children in Afghanistan and said that 3.5 million Afghan children currently need nutrition...
As many as eight children die each day from malnutrition at just one hospital in Kabul, a reliable source told Ariana News on Wednesday. According to...
Forty people have died from COVID-19 in Afghanistan in the past week, authorities said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Public Health, however, said that the peak...
In the last 45 days, more than four hundred people have died of pneumonia across the country, officials said adding that most of them were children....
More than 150 children died following the outbreak of measles in northeastern Badakhshan province, local officials said Friday. According to the official, 117 children in the...
Microsoft Corp co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates visited Pakistan on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan and saying polio eradication could be possible in coming...
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom has described the “health situation” in Afghanistan as “dire”. According to Adhamom he met with acting Minister of...
Ministry of Public Health officials said Sunday that in the past week 800 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, with Kabul, Kapisa and Maidan Wardak...
