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Article
03 November 2024
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 ...
Situation report
04 September 2024
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...
Press release
25 August 2024
EU provides additional €13 million for malnutrition treatment and community-based education in Afghanistan
Pashto version: Pashto Here Dari version: Dari Here KABUL, 25 August 2024 – Over 78,000 children in Afghanistan will benefit from additional funding for nutrition and Education in Emergencies from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). With this €13 million contribution, UNIC...
Document
31 July 2024
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...
Article
30 July 2024
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...
Photo essay
06 June 2024
Community cooking classes, regular checkups and feeding tips
Baby Ahmad-Sudais’ smile is infectious. He looks happy and relaxed on a hanging weighing scale at a health post in northern Afghanistan. His cheerful mood matches the bright, sunny day. Sitting with 40 other mothers and their babies, Ahmad-Sudais’ mother, Gul Jan, says her 11-month-old is healthier than his older...
Photo essay
28 May 2024
Healthcare “anytime, anywhere”
DAIKUNDI, AFGHANISTAN – “Saving a mother and a child is like saving a village to me.” Zahra is a 30-year-old Community Health Worker in remote Daikundi province, where thousands of children and mothers struggle to access primary healthcare. In Daikundi, villages are nestled between steep mountains. Without reliabl...
Photo essay
05 March 2024
Prevention, detection and treatment
In a country where 10 per cent of children under the age of five are malnourished and 45 per cent of children are stunted, the fight to end malnutrition starts with prevention, along with regular screening of children to monitor their growth. For children who fall through the cracks, UNICEF-supported health worker...
Photo essay
29 January 2024
Under Fatima's watchful eye
BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN – Fatima Sadaat has dedicated her life to improving the health and well-being of children in Shah Foladi village. She is one of 30,000 Community Health Workers UNICEF supports in Afghanistan, volunteering her time to bring healthcare into the most remote parts of the country. Every day, Fatima ...
Article
07 January 2024
A second chance to thrive
Lately, baby Saida cries a lot. Her father Ghousdin is usually able to calm her down, but her father’s calming voice is not working today. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the 9-month-old baby. “Three weeks ago, she started vomiting and had bloody diarrhoea. That’s when we knew something was wrong,” explain...
Press release
18 December 2023
Government of Japan and UNICEF scale up partnership to improve water supply, treat malnutrition and keep children safe in Afghanistan
KABUL, 18 December 2023 – The Government of Japan has provided US$4 million to UNICEF for the construction and rehabilitation of 21 solar-powered water supply systems, treatment of malnutrition and provision of child protection services including reuniting unaccompanied and separated children with their families, ...
Article
22 November 2023
An 11-week transformation
Moqadas stared at the ceiling, nestled in her mother’s lap. Her mouth open, she reached feebly for the ceiling, grasping at the unknown, but soon dropped her frail arm to her side. At six months old, Moqadas was severely acutely malnourished, barely consuming enough calories to survive. She weighed just over 4 kilograms. Her mother, Shabnam,…
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