ACDEO’s work has included providing life-saving care to people in vulnerable situations to enable them to provide sustained care for themselves and their families.

Health and nutrition

Achieving lasting gains in health, especially for women and children, remains a top priority for Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of child stunting and one of the two countries where polio remains endemic. As a result, nutrition and childhood immunisation programmes need to be protected and expanded.
At the same time, Afghanistan is still a country where women and girls are vulnerable to discrimination, with limited facilities and opportunities to promote female adolescent health and protect and expand reproductive health provision. Much maternal and childhood morbidity and mortality is concentrated in poor and/or remotely-located populations, especially among families in which the mothers have had limited or no access to education.
ACDEO’s work has included providing life-saving care to people in vulnerable situations to enable them to provide sustained care for themselves and their families. In collaboration with Afghanistan’s, Ministry of Public Health and the Gavi Alliance, ACDEO established a helpline Health Information Centre, providing promoting and preventive counselling, triage for referrals and access to advice from next-level care providers. Here, the aim is to exert a positive influence on health behaviour and promote good governance, voice and accountability in Afghanistan’s public health systems.

What We Have Done