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UNICEF Afghanistan Annual Report 2024
UNICEF Afghanistan’s 2024 annual report highlights the progress made for children and families across the country, as well as the complex challenges we continue to face.The numbers tell a powerful story of what we accomplished together, amongst them:over 20 million people, half of them children, accessed primary h...
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Quality of care – Skills to save lives
“We had baby warmers [cots to keep the baby warm] in stock, but they were left unused as we did not know how to use them. We only learnt how they worked during the recent trainings we received on quality of care,” says Sheeba Mudaqiq, a doctor and quality of care mentor at the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Qadi...
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Trust in services drives health awareness for women and girls in suburban Kabul
Kabul, Afghanistan:, Mirbachakot district sits inside the immense and steep-sided bowl that forms the Kabul valley in the mountainous heart of Afghanistan. It’s late January, and despite the bright morning sun the snow lies thick on the mountainsides, and lines the streets in icy drifts. It’s still early, but the...
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UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 01 January - 31 December, 2024
HighlightsIn 2024, 23.7 million people, including 12.6 million children, were in need of humanitarian assistance, mainly due to the residual impacts of a protracted conflict, returnees from Pakistan, extreme climate shocks and the country's severe economic decline, which is characterized by high unemployment and a...
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Triplets’ journey towards health
“I gave birth to premature quadruplets in May this year. While three of my babies survived, I lost one daughter,” says Maryam (39), one of the women and children receiving nutrition support at a UNICEF-backed day care centre in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Maryam is a mother of ten children, the youngest of whom ...
Situation report
UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 1-30 November 2024
Highlights• Since 15 September 2023, over 758,000 Afghan returnees from Pakistan have been registered. UNICEF continues to support the response at the Torkham and Spin Boldak border points with health, polio, WASH, nutrition, child protection and social behaviour change interventions.• In November, over 460,000 ch...
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Second Additional Financing for the Health Emergency Response (HER) project in Afghanistan funded by the World Bank
The World Bank is providing funding for the Second Additional Financing of the Afghanistan Health Emergency Response (HER-AF2) project, which is implemented by UNICEF, WFP, and their respective NGO Service Providers (SPs), Cooperating Partners (CPs), and Contractors. This project aims to deliver essential health and nutrition services to the population of Afghanistan.The project development objective (PDO) for the Second Additional Financing is t...
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Bringing health care home
Once a month, Sakina’s home comes alive. Women fill her living room, clustered together on floor cushions and carpets. They drink tea and giggle as their babies crawl around them. They converse, cook a meal and share parenting tips. But these rendezvous are no social affair. Sakina presides over these sessions as ...
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One year after the earthquakes in western Afghanistan, UNICEF calls for greater support to children’s basic needs and community resilience
HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, 7 October 2024, – One year after the powerful earthquakes in western Afghanistan, communities are showing signs of recovery. Families are slowly getting back on their feet, rebuilding their homes and lives after the disaster. But progress is fragile. Winter approaches and community resilience i...
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UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 1-31 July 2024
Highlights• On 15 and 16 July, heavy windstorms, severe rainfall and flash floods struck multiple districts in eastern and northeastern Afghanistan (Badakhshan, Kunar, Laghman, Nangarhar, and Nuristan provinces), resulting in 40 fatalities and 251 injuries, and significant infrastructure damages.• UNICEF continued...
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Additional Financing for the World Bank-financed Health Emergency Response project in Afghanistan (HER AF)
The World Bank is financing the Additional Financing to the Afghanistan Health Emergency Response (HER AF) project implemented by UNICEF, WFP and their respective NGO Service Providers (SPs), Cooperating Partners (CPs), and contractors to provide essential health services to the population of Afghanistan. The project development objective (PDO) for the Additional Financing is to increase the utilization and quality of essential health and nutriti...
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Healthcare on wheels
“My job is to screen children for signs of malnutrition. Sometimes all is well, but on a bad day, there may be three cases of severe acute malnutrition in the same family.” Shukria, a Nutrition Nurse, travels to some of the farthest flung communities in Afghanistan with a UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrit...