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...
Eight polio workers were killed in four separate attacks in Afghanistan’s northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar on Thursday, a UN official has said. In Kunduz,...
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....
US President Joe Biden said on Friday the US national emergency declared in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be extended beyond March 1...
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...
Disruptions in basic health services such as vaccination programmes and treatment of diseases like AIDS were reported in 92% of 129 countries, a World Health Organization...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children’s agency launched a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday, the first nationwide campaign to fight...
An aircraft carrying around 7 metric tonnes of life-saving medicines and supplies from the World Health Organization landed in Kabul last week, the organization confirmed Monday....
The World Bank previously gave hundreds of millions of dollars to Afghanistan to cover workers and other health care needs but cut off its support after...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that Afghanistan faces imminent collapse of health services and widespread hunger if aid and...
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday that the health system in Afghanistan is on the brink of collapse and called on...
The World Health Organization is concerned about worsening access to provide life-saving medicines and supplies in Afghanistan and attacks on health care facilities, as Afghan forces...
A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu,...
The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening...