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BRAC Afghanistan was selected as Principal Recipient (PR) for malaria and TB components of the Global Fund 8. [74] In 2009, 2,143,354 patients received treatment under the health programs mentioned. As of August 2010, BRAC Afghanistan had covered 388 districts and 25 million of the total population are under the BRAC Afghanistan Health Program.
Afghanistan made significant improvement in the last decade to its maternal and child health care. According to United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Afghanistan's mortality rate has decreased by about 25% since 2003. It was reported in 2006 that nearly 60% of the population lives within two hours walking distance of the ...
Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the Ministry of Health, along with the World Health Organization and other technical partners and donors reconstructed the health sector. At the time, at least 70% [5] of the Afghan population was dependent on health services provided by the international community. Almost six million Afghans had no or ...
The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. This is the plight at the Afghan-Japan Hospital for communicable diseases, the only COVID-19 facility for the more ...
The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,” the head ...
Qalandar Ibad (ډاکټر قلندر عباد) (born; 1980) is an Afghan physician who served as the acting Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan from 21 September 2021 to 28 May 2024.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
Indira Gandhi Children's hospital (IGICH) located in Kabul is a Children's hospital of Afghanistan. [2] It was founded in 1969 with funding from the government of India. [3] It was renamed in honor of Indira Gandhi in 1975. It has 400 beds, although the hospital sometimes has to assign more than one child per bed due to high demand. [4]