Meeting Held with Chargé d’affaires of Indonesia
KABUL, Afghanistan – The director of National EOC, Dr. Nek Wali Shah Momin met with Budi R. Suryasaputa, Chargé d’affaires…
Surveillance Report – Week 07, 2022
2021 The total number of Wild Polio cases remains 04 and cVDPV2 43. The total number of environment WPV1 positive…
Striving to protect every child in Afghanistan against polio in the middle of a humanitarian emergency
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan 25 January 2022 – Seven-year-old Amidah walked fearlessly through the traffic-thronged streets of Kandahar to bring her four-year-old…
Striving to protect every child in Afghanistan against polio in the middle of a humanitarian emergency
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan 25 January 2022 – Seven-year-old Amidah walked fearlessly through the traffic-thronged streets of Kandahar to bring her four-year-old…
MoPH condemns the senseless killing of the polio workers in Kunduz and Takhar provinces
Yesterday, eight polio workers, four of them women, were killed by unknown gunmen in separate attacks in in Kunduz and…
Eradicating polio isn’t an easy task
PAKTIA, Afghanistan 20th December 2021- On the snowy mountainous ranges of Paktia Province, southeast of Afghanistan, polio workers Qari Samiullah…
First polio vaccination campaign for 2022 underway
The first national polio immunization campaign for 2022 begins thisweek, 17-20 January 2022 targeting 9.9 million children aged 0–59 months…
A father story with paralyzed son
A group of young girls, paralyzed by polio disease in their early stages of life have join forces to fight the virus by creating awareness through basketball games in Herat province, western Afghanistan. The group composed of 15 wheelchaired basketball players have participated in a series of games with one goal – to encourage the community to vaccinate their children.
Nomadic children are at high risk of polio
Southeast, Afghanistan, July 2021 – In the vast plains of Paktia province, nomadic families have settled in Dawlat Zai camp,…
Monthly Update of the Polio Eradication Program
Polio monthly update from all regions as of month of May