Nearly 15 percent experience depression, UNICEF said.
The Ministry of Public Health, in cooperation with the relevant international organizations, on Monday launched the second nationwide campaign of polio vaccination for the year 2024....
Qatar Red Crescent Society on Saturday signed an agreement with the Afghan Red Crescent Society for the treatment of 169 children suffering from congenital heart defects....
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday it can only support one in every three malnourished children across Afghanistan, highlighting the shortage of funding. WFP...
Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs Abdul Salam Hanafi on Sunday met with WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Hanan Balkhy, and called for the...
A plane carrying 92 tonnes of vital medicines has arrived in Afghanistan to treat about 675,000 people, including children, with life-threatening but treatable illnesses after an...
Afghanistan launched a polio vaccination campaign on Monday aimed at protecting around 10.72 million children under the age of 5, the Health Ministry announced. The four-day...
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...