Decades of conflict have ruined Afghanistan’s economy and infrastructure and many people rely on humanitarian aid.
MSF focuses on emergency, paediatric, and maternal healthcare in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
We work in two hospitals in Kabul and one in Helmand province, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health. We also run a maternity hospital in rural Khost province, and a drug-resistant tuberculosis programme in Kandahar.
In October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed our trauma centre in Kunduz, killing 42 people. The trauma centre has been closed since then, but the need for lifesaving trauma care remains extremely high.
What are we doing in Afghanistan?
By providing free, high quality maternal and neonatal healthcare in four hospitals in Kabul, Helmand and Khost provinces, we aim to help reduce death and sickness in mothers and their newborns. Training medical staff is an integral and important part of our projects.
We support the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. In Kandahar province, in the south of the country, we run a laboratory, as well as facilities for hosting patients during their treatment.
Our trauma centre in Kunduz was destroyed in US airstrikes killing 42 people, in October 2015. In 2017, we returned to Kunduz to open an outpatient clinic for people with minor trauma-related wounds and injuries, and are evaluating the possibility of re-opening the trauma care centre.
