Statement

Afghanistan: An escalating crisis for women and girls

15 August 2022

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Press Release

20,000 women and girls affected by Afghanistan earthquake need urgent access to life-saving health care

04 July 2022

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News

Family health houses save lives, employ women, in rural Afghanistan

Midwife Laila Amini checks on a mother and newborn at the Arkalik Village Family Health House. Photo Image courtesy of AADA.
  • 13 May 2022
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Updates

From Ukraine to Afghanistan, Iceland increases its support to humanitarian efforts to safeguard women and girls’ rights

03 May 2022

In 2022, Iceland increases its support to UNFPA to safeguard women and girls’ rights. In April, Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir met with UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem. © UNFPA
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News

Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

Midwife Zul Haja displays some of the reproductive health care supplies she provides for women at the Zero Point clinic in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, on the border with Pakistan. © UNFPA/Stenly Sajow
  • 31 March 2022
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News

More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan

Internally displaced persons on their way to seek free medical services from a mobile health team in Kandahar. From August to December 2021, UNFPA-supported mobile health teams reached more than 33,000 people with sexual and reproductive health services. © UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 17 March 2022
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UNFPA’s Humanitarian Response in Afghanistan

Published on: 17/03/2022

In Afghanistan, where 18.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, UNFPA is on the ground delivering for women and girls. In this video, UNFPA Afghanistan Representative Alexander Sasha Bodiroza shows how we're taking action in Afghanistan and why our life-saving work must continue. Learn more

Resources

Afghanistan Humanitarian Appeal 2022

Resource date: Mar 2022

Afghanistan is confronting an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a very real risk of systemic collapse and human catastrophe that threatens many of the development gains of the last 20 years. The situation has deteriorated in recent months due to the ongoing conflict and the political power shift, COVID-19 and drought – and it is Afghan women and girls who are paying the heaviest price.

UNFPA requires $251.9 million to respond to the reproductive health and protection needs of 9.3 million people affected by the crisis for the year 2022. 

News

Emergency health kits ensure maternal and newborn care in Afghanistan

Shahla Oruzgani, head midwife at Kabul's Malalai Maternity Hospital, attends to a newborn. ©UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 13 December 2021
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News

Emergency help is a phone call away for midwives in Afghanistan

A Midwifery Helpline worker walks a caller through a procedure over the phone © UNFPA Afghanistan
  • 21 December 2021
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