Afghanistan: When malnutrition compounds paediatric tuberculosis
March 24, 2026“She has been sick for the last three months, with persistent fever and cough. I went to a medical store and bought injections for her. She improved for five days but then became as sick as before. When the driver...
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Afghanistan: How MSF health promotion creates a bridge between community and healthcare
March 23, 2026In late August 2025, a magnitude 6 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, including Kunar province, killing and injuring thousands of people and displacing many families. Among those affected was a mother who later joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to help connect...
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Afghanistan: MSF responds to the Kunar earthquake
November 13, 2025“It was between ten to 12 o'clock when my uncle’s wife went to bed. I told her not to lock the door of the house, my senses saying an earthquake might happen. I was sitting on my bed later when...
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Afghanistan: MSF warns of local restrictions affecting women’s access to healthcare in Herat
November 7, 2025Herat, Afghanistan, 7 November 2025- Since 5 November, local restrictions have been implemented in Herat province requiring female patients, caretakers, and staff to wear a burqa to enter public health facilities, including at Herat hospital. This sudden enforcement adds limitations...
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Pakistan: Afghan refugees fear seeking medical care
July 11, 2025Balochistan, Pakistan- “Since the deportations were announced, we live in constant anxiety,” says an Afghan refugee and father of two girls, while he visits a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Balochistan, Pakistan. He describes how Afghan refugee communities are gripped...
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Afghanistan: Hospitals struggle with surging pediatric patient numbers
July 3, 2025The sound of crying and beeping medical devices fills the small room. Nurses rush from bed to bed, checking vital signs. Mothers push oxygen masks onto the faces of their children.The emergency room doctor bursts through the swinging doors of...
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Afghanistan: Meet the technicians supporting patients at Kunduz Trauma Centre
July 1, 2025Kunduz Province, Afghanistan- Shir Mohammad starts listing all the medical and non-medical devices that he and his team of technicians have built from scratch for the Kunduz Trauma Centre in northern Afghanistan. These include crutches, walkers, and even a stretcher...
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Afghanistan: Alarming surge in measles cases at MSF-supported facilities in Balkh, Herat and Helmand
March 14, 2025Kabul, 12 March 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan have reported a surge in measles patients at three MSF-supported hospitals since January. While measles is endemic in Afghanistan, such a high number of cases so early in...
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Afghanistan: MSF Raising Awareness About AMR – Tackling Antibiotic Resistance Every Day
November 26, 2024More public awareness, stronger infection prevention control, better control of antibiotic use, and access to microbiology are important measures to address AMR Said Dawood, 24, is a construction worker in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz. © Abdulamin Shinwari/MSF For...
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Afghanistan: Patients’ stories from MSF-supported Mazar-i-Sharif Regional Hospital in the Balkh Province
June 11, 2024Public healthcare facilities, especially tertiary hospitals, such as the MSF-supported Mazar-i-Sharif Regional Hospital in the Balkh province, are struggling to cover essential running costs like staff salaries, medicines and medical supplies, fuel, and oxygen supply, due to the lack of...
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Afghanistan: Measles surge necessitates strengthening of prevention measures
May 20, 2024Ten-month-old Bilal lies in bed at Mazar-i-Sharif regional hospital, in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, where he is being treated for measles and pneumonia, watched over by his mother Zakia. When Bilal fell ill with a fever, Zakia took him to one privately-run...
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Afghanistan: MSF’s new project aims to fill critical gaps in the provision of paediatric and neonatal care
December 18, 2023“I really don’t know the pain she’s going through, but I am here with her hoping she gets better soon,” says Farida, the mother of nine-month-old Hadia.For two days, Hadia has refused to eat anything, even her favourite fruit, bananas....
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