News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

1 August 2010 - World Breastfeeding Week will be celebrated across Afghanistan from 1-7 August in a major campaign led by the Ministry of Public Health with the support of UNICEF, WHO and other health sector partners. The seven days are commemorated every year to focus attention on the important…

KABUL - Relief aid provided by various United Nations agencies and Afghan partners has started to reach the nearly 4,000 families affected by last week’s flooding in eastern Afghanistan. “Hopefully, we will not have a big gap,” Said Alam Khan of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

2 August 2010 - UNICEF is distributing emergency assistance in the provinces that have been worst affected by recent floods, ensuring that the urgent needs of children are met. The flooding follows torrential rains that have hit central and eastern parts of Afghanistan in the course of the last week…

1 August 2010 - A week of concerts with Ustad Safdar Tawakuli and other Hazara singers, buzkashi horse matches, theatre performances by youth groups and sales of homespun carpets and honey jars, wrapped up today at the second annual Bamyan Silk Road Festival. Held in central Afghanistan near the…

KABUL - The Afghanistan Poppy Eradication Verification Final Report released by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that a total of 2,316 hectares of eradicated poppy fields have been verified by MCN/UNODC in 11 provinces. Download…

3 August 2010 - Breast milk provides a baby with all the essential fluids, energy and nutrients needed during the first six months of life, according to a campaign launched this week by the Ministry of Public Health with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN World Health…

3 August 2010 - Afghanistan has launched a new drive to better prepare its health sector, and the broader community, to cope with and respond to the impacts of conflict, hazardous natural events and other potential humanitarian crises. Supported by the World Health Organization, the country's…

3 August 2010 - The World Health Organization is currently conducting the largest-ever delivery of medicines and health supplies to Afghanistan, sending 430 tonnes of life-saving materials - enough for 1 million people - to health providers throughout the country. The Ministry of Public Health and…

4 August 2010 - Exhibited in the Chahar Suq Sistern, a site restored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) in the heart of Heart’s old city, the works - prints, watercolours, lithographs - reflect the impressions of European visitors to Afghanistan between 1830 and 1920. “We intended to make the…

4 August 2010 - From a boy injecting heroin to children playing football near the ruins of Darulaman Palace in Kabul, a newly opened photo exhibit in the capital city's Babur Garden aims to show the challenges and joys of life in Afghanistan through the camera lenses of 32 Afghan photography…

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5 August 2010 - The World Health Organization has begun sending medical relief supplies to address health needs of victims of the flooding across provinces in central, eastern and northern Afghanistan. At the request of the Afghan government, WHO has so far provided enough supplies to cover the…