Haqqani ordered specialized health teams to be deployed to the affected area and ordered a follow up meeting to be convened with World Health Organization representatives...
Acting Minister of Public Health, Noor Jalal Jalali, says the issue of health should not be politicized given that Afghanistan has a vulnerable health-care sector and...
Over the last four days, more than 500 residents of Dara Kashfan area in Shinwar district of Parwan have been infected
Depending on the production capacity of manufacturers, agreements for up to 12 million doses through 2025 can be made, according to the statement.
So far, cases of monkeypox have been recorded in Pakistan, Sweden and Africa.
The Deputy Minister of Public Health appointed the teams to work together on the preparation of the list of duties and the definition of mpox, and...
the acting minister, convened a meeting with health officials to discuss plans for containing the monkeypox outbreak that has affected parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Earlier on Friday, the health department in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said three cases had been detected in patients on arrival from the United Arab Emirates....
The announcement by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came after a meeting of the U.N. health agency’s emergency committee
WHO reported that in the past week, two new cases were confirmed in Helmand and Kandahar provinces
Dixon meanwhile pledged his country's continuous cooperation for Afghanistan's health sector, the statement read.
The Ministry of Public Health has announced that nearly 2.4 million children under the age of five are expected to receive the polio vaccination during a...
Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries that have yet to eradicate polio.
UNICEF is launching programs through nutrition counseling for mothers, focusing on when and how to breastfeed, so that children have the best possible start in life
Polio and other diseases have spread among Palestinians in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands live in cramped tent camps where they are forced to drink unclean water...
So far this year nine cases of wild poliovirus have been reported in Afghanistan - compared to six cases last year
In 2010, the World Health Organization named the 28th of July as the World Anti-Jaundice Day. This organization stated that the purpose of naming this day...
Based on this report, 37,342 women; 20,752 men; 22,726 girls and 15,171 boys received health services in Baghlan province.
The officials from international organizations reiterated their commitment to sustained collaboration in the health sector and pledged additional support, the statement said.
Just over 67 percent of births are attended by a skilled health professional, UNICEF said.
