Ayaz Gul VOA News February 20, 2024 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban have reportedly allowed female high school graduates in Afghanistan to enroll in state-run medical institutes for the new academic year that begins in March. The enrollment process has begun in more than a dozen Afghan provinces, following a directive from the Ministry of Public Health
8am: Officials from the Herat Regional Hospital have verified an increase in respiratory illnesses within the province. They report that numerous individuals visit the hospital daily due to contracting these illnesses, and some are hospitalized due to the severity of their condition. Dawood Hashemi, the head of the General Admission Ward at the Herat Regional
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 12, 2024 A sharp drop in foreign aid to Afghanistan has heavily impacted that country’s public health-care system, exacerbating “malnutrition and illnesses resulting from inadequate medical care,” Human Rights Watch said in a new report published on February 12. HRW also said Taliban restrictions on women and girls have impeded access to
Khaama: After the World Health Organization reported on the increase in acute respiratory infections in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Public Health of the Taliban government also confirmed the rise of this disease in the country. The World Health Organization has warned that polluted and toxic air can lead to serious risks such as strokes, heart
8am: A credible source at the provincial hospital of Badakhshan confirmed to the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Sunday, February 4th, that since the start of the current solar year, the hospital has recorded at least nine thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-six cases of measles. It is important to highlight that since the Taliban regained control
Ariana: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has reported that malaria remains a public health concern as 27% of Afghans live in areas where there is a high risk of the disease. According to UNDP, 50% of the people in Afghanistan live in areas where the probability of contracting malaria is moderate, and only 23%
Ariana: A polio vaccination campaign has been launched in 21 provinces and will reach more than 7.5 million children under the age of five, the Ministry of Public Health said. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world that still record cases of the virus on a regular basis. However, so far
8am: In the male-dominated Afghan society, if a man intends to demean another, he targets the honor of his relatives, primarily women. Everyday insults in the city and markets exemplify this approach. With this understanding, the Taliban now resort to abducting and torturing women, sometimes accompanied by sexual assault, to further humiliate society. This is
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 10, 2024 ISLAMABAD — A senior representative of Afghanistan’s Taliban government told a Pakistan-hosted international health conference Wednesday that his country had recorded an increase in mosquito-borne malaria and dengue fever cases, but infections caused by highly contagious poliovirus declined significantly. Only 12 children around the world were paralyzed by wild
8am: Residents of Herat province report that more than two years of living under the rule of the Taliban and the dismantling of relative prosperity have left the majority of them afflicted with mental illnesses. Concerns about the increasing mental health problems are shared by officials of the province’s Regional Hospital, who confirm that the