The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that with the onset of the rainy season, dengue cases could increase in Afghanistan. WHO Afghanistan said on Twitter...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reported a 16% increase in malnutrition cases among children in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. MSF, the international aid organization in a tweet...
Three consulting doctors from Turkmenistan have arrived in Herat province where they will provide medical treatment to Afghan women and children at the Turgundi maternity hospital....
The Ministry of Public Health has launched a four-day polio vaccination campaign in 217 districts across 23 provinces of the country. In a statement, the ministry...
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health on Saturday reported that the first case of polio in the country in 2023 was registered. The new polio case was reported...
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan on Thursday said it is facing a critical funding gap for ready-to-use-food for severely malnourished children in...
Global progress in reducing deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies has flatlined for eight years due to decreasing investments in maternal and newborn health, according...
Britain’s fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the U.K.’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to...
Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has signed an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide essential medicines in underserved areas in 11 provinces of...
The Ministry of Public and Health (MoPH) marked World Thalassemia Day on Monday in Kabul and said they are committed to standardizing health services throughout the...
The World Health Organization announced that last year (2022), two children were left disabled due to polio in Afghanistan. This figure is the lowest number of...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says more than one million cases of malaria were reported in 34 provinces of Afghanistan in 2022. Marking World Malaria...
Japan has pledged $1 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) for a project to strengthen Afghanistan’s capacity for preparedness, detection and response to infectious diseases...
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Monday marked World Hemophilia Day in Kabul under the theme “Access For All”. Mohammad Ishaq Sahebzada, deputy minister of...
A Chinese woman has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans, the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
About one in six adults globally have experienced infertility at least once in their life, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report on Monday,...
Two hundred children with cleft palates and cleft lips are being operated on free of charge on the occasion of the holy month of Ramazan by...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report released Thursday that 45.1 percent of cases of acute respiratory infections in Afghanistan involve children. Since October...
Chile detected the first case of bird flue in a human, the country’s health ministry reported on Wednesday. The case was detected in a 53-year-old man...
Brigadier General Dr. Abdul Wali Ahmadzai and a team of specialists at the Kabul military hospital have successfully operated on a man from Helmand who was...