Acting Minister of Public Health Qalandar Ebad, in a meeting with Azerbaijan’s ambassador, Ilham Mohammadov, called for the country’s assistance in improving the capacity of Afghanistan’s...
Based on last year’s data, 52 percent of people with mental disorders in Afghanistan are women, the Ministry of Public Health said. However, after the Islamic...
A total of 1.2 million women in Afghanistan were malnourished last year, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday. Mona Shaikh, head of nutrition at WFP...
Research in the expanding field of space medicine has identified many ways in which a microgravity environment and other factors can meddle with the human body...
Acting Minister of Public Health Qalandar Ebad has said that the country’s health sector needs 75 percent female workers to provide health services to women. Speaking...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that in the last two weeks, 84,000 cases of acute respiratory diseases have been registered in Afghanistan. Between January 1...
A polio vaccination campaign has been launched in 21 provinces and will reach more than 7.5 million children under the age of five, the Ministry of...
A new 20-bed hospital, overseen by the 209th Army Corps in Mazar-e-Sharif city, in northern Balkh province, has been officially inaugurated. According to a statement, this...
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...