The Islamic Development Bank has committed $1.1 million to enhance maternal and childcare health services in Bamyan province of Afghanistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on...
The influx of Afghan returnees from Pakistan significantly increases the risk of cross-border poliovirus spread as well as spread within the two countries, the World Health...
Acting Minister of Public Health Qalandar Ibad, during his visit to Malaysia, met with the country’s special envoy for Afghanistan in Kuala Lumpur. The Ministry of...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) is not against the rights of women as 150,000 females are working the health sector, Acting Public Health Minister Qalandar...
The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan has announced that Qatar plans to build a 400-bed hospital in Kandahar province. Sharaf Zaman, the spokesperson of the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday appealed for $10 million to provide essential health services and ensure health care access for a targeted 700,000 Afghan...
The European Union has released an additional 10 million euros (an equivalent of 800 million Afghanis) to improve mental health and addressing drug use disorders in...
Ministry of Public Health officials say that they will renovate the Jamhuriat Hospital in Kabul and ensure the health facility meets international standards so that citizens...
Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO’s chief scientist said,...
A plasma volume expander producing factory with an investment of $25 million has been inaugurated in Afghan capital Kabul, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said...
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such...
Depression among women has increased in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday. UN Women, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the...
There have been 32 positive environmental samples of polio found so far this year in Afghanistan, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO said in...
Officials in Badakhshan’s main hospital say that cases of malnutrition among children in the remote northeastern province have increased. According to them, in the past month,...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday 581,548 patients, mostly women and children, received primary health care at 47 health facilities of the Afghan Red...
The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cases of dengue fever could reach close to record highs this year, partly due to global warming benefiting...
A total of 47 people have died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says a polio vaccination case response campaign will be implemented in the eastern region of Afghanistan, which includes Nangarhar, Laghman,...
U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday...
A free eye clinic set up by the Pak-Afghan Cooperation Forum (PACF) in collaboration with Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan has performed surgeries on 253 Afghan nationals in...