1TV: Twenty-two police were killed when Taliban attacked checkpoints overnight in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, the provincial police said Tuesday. Fifteen more police were injured in attacks which targeted checkpoints in Maiwand and Zherai districts. The clashes also left 45 militants killed and 35 more injured. Click here to read more (external link). Related Farah: Eight
Ayaz Gul VOA News / November 13, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan and Pakistan officially are now the only two nations across the globe to have reported wild polio virus cases so far this year, though the numbers of cases have declined to historic lows. Armed conflicts, deadly attacks on polio vaccinators and instances such as lack
WHO: Most of Afghanistan is polio-free but wild poliovirus is still circulating in parts of the country, particularly in the Eastern, Southern and South-Eastern regions. The transmission in the East illustrates the importance of common reservoir transmission between Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA and the area bordering Afghanistan. In 2016, 12 wild poliovirus cases were confirmed:
KABUL, March 28 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan’s massive anti-polio campaign reportedly hit snags in areas were anti-government militants including Taliban and Islamic State (IS) groups are active, as campaign centers were attacked by militants over the weekend. Unknown armed men set on fire an anti-polio center in Chardehi area of Batikot district in the eastern Nangarhar
The Guardian (UK): For years, declining death rates among pregnant women have been hailed as one of the great gains of foreign aid in Afghanistan. In reality, however, Afghan women dying in pregnancy or childbirth may be more than twice as high as numbers provided by donors would suggest. Since 2010, published figures have shown maternal
ReliefWeb: The Ministry of Public Health along with its partners UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) will tomorrow launch a polio vaccination campaign in all provinces of the Southern, Eastern and South-eastern regions as well as selected high-risk districts across the country, including Kabul city. The campaign aims to reach over 5.6 million children and
KABUL, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan kicked off a mass vaccination campaign against polio after a new case of the infectious disease was recently confirmed, the Public Health Ministry said on Monday. Starting from Monday, the house-to-house drive will target 9.5 million children of less than five-year-old, the ministry said in a statement. “The campaign
Tolo News: More than 37,000 children are being deprived of polio vaccinations in Taywara and Pasaband districts of central Ghor province due to insecurity, provincial health officials said. However in the past few years no cases of polio have been registered in this area but concerns have now been raised – especially after two new cases where
Tolo News: Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Monday said that the ministry recently registered two new polio incidents in the country. Maiwand Ahmadzai, head of the polio department at the health ministry said that one incident had been registered in Kabul and the other in Paktika. This comes as the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and
VOA News August 15, 2016 Zabihullah Ghazi JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN — Afghanistan will restart a polio vaccination drive in the coming days for thousands of children in remote eastern regions previously controlled by the Islamic State, provincial authorities say. Polio vaccinations have been on hold for more than 18 months because health workers were not able to