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Health
In Afghanistan, where breast cancer is a death sentence, women fight to save lives
Shirbanoo gripped her children tightly and wept. She had a hard mass growing in her breast, and a dangerous 700 kilometre journey ahead of her.
Polio vaccination campaign underway in Eastern provinces
The Nangarhar Public Health Directorate said a three-day polio vaccine campaign has been launched in the province and about seven hundred thousand children under the
Focus on MoPH’s report on Afghans’ mental problem
Focusing on the results of a research launched by Ministry of Public Health half of Afghanistan’s population are suffering from psychological problem. To fight this
MoPH’s maternal handbook project to go national
KABUL: In a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative, new mothers in Mir Bacha Kot district in Kabul have been receiving a tool to plan their
Afghans severely hit by mental health crisis
During the last more than three decades, Afghanistan has been impacted in many ways by conflicts. One can hardly find an Afghan family which has
Heart diseases increasing in Afghanistan
Cardiac diseases cases are increasing in the country and annually fifty thousand added to the number of people suffering from heart diseases. Although the precise
Afghanistan makes better nutrition a priority
Last year, Afghanistan became the 60th country to join Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), a global movement to end malnutrition, and thus signaled its strong commitment
Nearly 14m children in Afghanistan to be immunized against measles
The Government of Afghanistan, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have yesterday
A rare cross border alliance to save 3 year old Afghan girl
In a heart-warming tale of compassion and cross-border harmony, three-year-old baby Hadia Nesari, an Afghanistan national, was saved by the diligence of Dr. Huma Cheema,