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Afghanistan
Policies implemented following the Taliban take over in mid-August 2021 coupled with developments such as drought and earthquakes have severely exacerbated challenges for aid agencies in Afghanistan.
School director shot dead in Herat province
21 February 2024: In Qol-e Ardu locality, Herat province, the director of a Roshan Zamiran Private School was attacked and shot dead when unidentified assailants attacked the school. Two armed men reportedly assaulted some staff members.* Source: Hasht-E Subh Daily. Return to Afghanistan home page. more
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13 September 2021
Predictions and mitigation measures.
Afghanistan
May 2021
Attacks on Health Care in Afghanistan 2019
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Health Care
Blog Post: When Vaccine Hesitancy Turns Violent
Vaccinations have often been treated with suspicion in Afghanistan following reports of a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Pakistan by US intelligence agencies and subsequent propaganda campaigns by militant groups. Insecurity Insight’s blog post for the RIAH project at the University of Manchester, UK, discusses recorded incidents of critical violence against vaccination campaigns between January 2016 and February 2022 across 16 countries including Afghanistan.
2022 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) Factsheet
Based on Insecurity Insight data, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 81 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Afghanistan in 2022, compared to 107 incidents in 2021. At least 31 health workers were arrested and 26 killed in these incidents, undermining health care providers’ ability to maintain safe staffing levels. Vaccination campaigns faced threats or violence on at least 13 occasions with ten vaccinators being fatally shot including eight polio vaccination workers killed on February 24. The full chapter is accessible here and the data can be downloaded here.
Our Global Interactive Map on Threats and Violence against Health Care provides access to continuously updated information on violence against health care in conflict and related to COVID-19.