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  2022-12-02

  Youth Help Line offers assistance as mental health issues soar in Afghanistan

  The phone line is reachable by dialing 120 from any network in Afghanistan for free. The service helps Afghan youth who cannot share their problems directly with psychologists or physicians.

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  2022-12-01

  UN launches record $51 billion emergency funding appeal amid spiraling crises

  More than 28 million people are considered to be in need in drought-hit Afghanistan, while another eight million Afghans and their hosts in the region also need assistance.

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  2022-11-16

  Aid organisations redouble efforts amid 47% rise in child malnutrition

  Continuing unemployment and increasing poverty in Afghanistan have caused a rise in hunger and malnutrition, particularly among children.

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  2022-11-03

  Humanitarian group provides wheelchairs to hundreds in southern Afghanistan

  Those with disabilities, many of whom a Turkish aid group is providing with wheelchairs, are suffering greatly amid Afghanistan's unprecedented economic crisis.

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  2022-10-17

  Gates Foundation pledges over $1 billion to eradicate polio

  The organisation has pledged $1.2 billion to immunise children against the polio virus around the world, with a focus on Afghanistan, one of the few countries where polio remains endemic.

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  2022-09-22

  UNICEF provides clean drinking water to hundreds of Nimroz families

  Villagers were previously forced to drink unsafe water from the Helmand river, causing illness and even deaths from waterborne diseases.

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  2022-09-15

  UNICEF warns of staggering child malnutrition in Afghanistan

  UNICEF has treated almost 500,000 Afghan children for severe malnutrition over the past 12 months, and warns that many more lives hang in the balance.

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  2022-09-13

  UNICEF provides potable water to Takhar residents amid rise in cholera cases

  The project aims to distribute 700 litres of drinking water for free to every household for two months.

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  2022-08-31

  Low-quality medicines smuggled from Iran pose danger in Afghanistan

  Low-quality and expired medications endanger patients' health and undermine Afghanistan's own pharmaceutical industry, doctors and officials say.

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  2022-08-11

  UN opens 25 health centres in Badghis amid tuberculosis outbreak

  Amid a particularly bad tuberculosis outbreak in Badghis province, the United Nations Population Fund is providing critical treatment and preventive health care to thousands of local residents.