Officials say routine vaccination remains the most effective tool for eliminating polio and have urged families to fully cooperate with health teams during the campaign.
The Ambassador of Afghanistan in Doha has requested Qatar’s assistance in treating heart patients, particularly children, suffering from congenital heart defects. During a meeting with Faisal...
The campaign will be carried out across multiple provinces and districts, and includes the administration of Vitamin A supplements alongside oral polio vaccines.
UNFPA said health workers in these areas—often difficult to access and underserved—continue to provide essential services with unwavering dedication, despite mounting challenges.
In response, the organization has ramped up efforts to educate communities about the dangers. Last year, over 3 million children and their guardians were trained to...
More than 473 million children - more than one in six globally - live in conflict-affected areas, according to the report.
The EU also stated it is committed to supporting the country's children through education, health care and protection programs.
More than one in three people in Afghanistan are facing crisis levels of hunger, driven mostly by climate shocks and high food prices.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said this week the main cause of malnutrition in Afghanistan is poverty, and that children under the age of six months are...
Save the Children is responding to urgent needs through existing health and emergency response programming. Teams have also been deployed to the affected areas to determine...
Factors such as economic poverty, conflicts, crises and the COVID pandemic have forced millions of children to do hard labor around the world.
An estimated 6.5 million children in Afghanistan – or nearly three out of ten – will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as...
In the wake of an announcement by Pakistan that it intends to start Phase Two of deportations of Afghans, Save the Children said Thursday that almost...
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has reported that the needs of 40% of children in Afghanistan are unmet, and that one-third of children in the country...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said in reaction to the UN report claiming that there were 4,519 cases of violence against children in Afghanistan, that...
In the first five months of this year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provided life saving treatment to 273,000 children with severe acute malnutrition in...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday said 16 million children in Afghanistan need support and humanitarian assistance. Fran Equiza, UNICEF representative in...
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...
Millions of Afghan children have been vaccinated during the first nationwide integrated measles and polio campaign in Afghanistan since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) came...
The number of children needing humanitarian assistance rose more than 20% this year to 149 million, with Afghanistan then the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) most...