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...
Eighty thousand people in Kunduz have received the COVID-19 vaccine in the past six months, officials confirmed Friday. Health officials in Kunduz province say that since...
Pneumonia cases have spiked in Afghanistan, leaving an untold number of children dead due to the lack of healthcare facilities in the country, Save the Children,...
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on Sunday that COVID-19 infections have increased across Afghanistan. According to the MoPH, 429 COVID-19 cases were reported in...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has once again appealed to the international community to find a funding mechanism to help prevent Afghanistan’s primary health care initiative...
The first national polio immunization campaign for 2022 is set to start this week and will target 9.9 million children aged 0–59 months across the country....
Public Health Ministry officials said Monday that Afghanistan’s health sector does not have the medical equipment needed to detect the newly mutated version of the coronavirus...
A U.S. man with terminal heart disease was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, and three days later the patient is...
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned that over 90 percent of Afghanistan’s health clinics are expected to shut down amid the ongoing economic crisis in...
India has delivered the third batch of medical aid to Afghanistan as part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance to the country. In a statement issued on...
An outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 5,000 migratory cranes in Israel, prompting authorities to declare a popular nature reserve off-limits to visitors and...
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health said 90 percent of foreign aid to the health sector has been cut, which has resulted in serious challenges. Addressing a...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said Tuesday that four positive cases of wild Poliovirus have been reported since the beginning of this year in Afghanistan....
The fourth round of the national polio immunization campaign in Afghanistan is scheduled to start Monday and will be synchronized with Pakistan to improve cross-border polio...
Afghans said Sunday that the cost of pharmaceutical drugs has doubled in the past month, on the back of a collapsing economy and struggling health sector....
