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Programme
21 June 2018
Health
Ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths
On 16 March 2023, Nurse Sadia Khan* prepares a wound dressing for a patient at a hospital in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
Article
10 May 2023
A female health worker’s service despite numerous challenges
Amidst increasing restrictions on women in Afghanistan, UNICEF supports salaries for health workers like Sadia so she can continue caring for children
On 13th June 2022, eleven year old Sadaf Samadi holds a bar of soap at the UNICEF-supported Fatah Girls School in Herat, Afghanistan.
Press release
26 March 2023
Government of Japan contributes over US$ 21 million for life-saving vaccines, and water and sanitation in Afghanistan’s schools
With this funding, UNICEF will provide vaccines for 18.3 million mothers and children across Afghanistan, and clean water for 30,000 people in four provinces.
On 1 February 2023, a baby boy is among 50 children being treated for acute respiratory infections at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Article
15 February 2023
Acute respiratory infections double among children
Amidst the worst winter in years, UNICEF is providing a lifeline to the vulnerable by heating health facilities and prepositioning medicine
Nooria Nurse Gardez Hospital
Article
19 December 2022
Nurse Nooria
UNICEF and the World Bank collaborate to improve healthcare services in Afghanistan
On 20 September 2022, Children look happy and cool in Kaldar district, Mazar. They are in different grades of school. The health clinic in this district provides them with safe and healthy services, which are fully supported by UNICEF, and recently night shift maternity services are being started.
Photo essay
03 November 2022
This new 24-hour clinic is a prescription for good health
In a remote clinic in Afghanistan, nurses on the new night shift provide relief and reassurance for underserved mothers and infants
Mohammad was born one month premature and struggled to breathe. But at the newly renovated neonatal intensive care unit at Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul, nurses could give him oxygen and keep him warm in a new incubator while he grew healthy.
Article
01 September 2022
A widowed wife and her baby fighting for life
When young Zaynab’s new baby was born premature, a new UNICEF-supported neonatal ward in Afghanistan was her lifeline
Gulaba, 7, sits in the tent where she now lives with her family after the earthquake in Afghanistan destroyed her home in Paktika Province.
Article
25 June 2022
“I felt my sister’s hand beside me”
Trapped under her collapsed home for five hours after the devastating earthquake in Afghanistan, young Gulaba emerged to even more devastation
UNICEF Picture
Document
26 May 2022
Afghanistan Health Emergency Response (HER) Project
Environmental and Social Safeguards

Files available for download (7)

Stakeholder Engagement Plan-English (PDF, 470 KB)
Stakeholder Engagement Plan_Pashto (PDF, 790 KB)
Stakeholder Engagement Plan-Dari (PDF, 737 KB)
Environmental and Social Commitment Plan-English (PDF, 288 KB)
Environmental and Social Commitment Plan-Dari (PDF, 338 KB)
Environmental and Social Commitment Plan-Pashto (PDF, 411 KB)
HER Environmental and Social Management Framework (PDF, 1 KB)
two-year-old Fatima has her nutritional status screened using MUAC at Bab-e-Bargh health centre where UNICEF-supported immunization, health, nutrition and ante/post-natal care continue to be provided in Herat city’s largest health clinic.
Press release
10 March 2022
Government of Japan provides crucial support to UNICEF health, nutrition and protection interventions in Afghanistan
The generous contribution will help increase equitable coverage of lifesaving emergency services for nearly 69,000 children and their parents