had improved malnutrition rates. Seventy-nine percent of people in Afghanistan lack sufficient access to clean water, according to the UN development agency. Aisha, who asked that her real name ...

In 2023, the World Food Program warned that malnutrition rates in Afghanistan were at a record high with half the country ...

Last year, the UN agency warned that malnutrition rates in Afghanistan were at a record high with half the country suffering from severe hunger throughout the year.Afghanistan is experiencing a ...

Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of stunting in children under five, said Daniel Timme, communications head for the UN children's agency, UNICEF. "If not detected and treated ...

GANDANCHUSMA - Two-and-a-half years after the return of the Taliban to power, malnutrition is rife in Afghanistan, a country beset by economic, humanitarian and climatic crises. Ten percent of ...

Afghan nurse, holding a cup of milk for a patient in the malnutrition ward of the government hospital in Baharak district of Badakhshan province. - Malnutrition has been exacerbated by the ...

"Sometimes, we even have two patients in one bed," she told AFP, adding that training, including on how to support mothers' breastfeeding, had improved malnutrition rates. Seventy-nine percent of ...