UNHCR Afghanistan Health Factsheet - October 2024

The 2024 HNRP estimates that 17.9 million people in Afghanistan require health assistance in the same year, within a context characterised by a fragile and under-resourced healthcare system, fraught by unequal access to services, ongoing communicable disease breaks, critical unmet maternal and child health needs, high rates of malnutrition, and significant morbidity and mortality rates as result. Acute disease outbreaks continue to challenge Afghanistan’s health sector, including measles, acute watery diarrhea (AWD), dengue fever, pertussis, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and malaria.