
Afghanistan
MSF focuses on emergency, paediatric, and maternal healthcare in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
We work in two hospitals in Kabul and one in Helmand province, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health. We also run a maternity hospital in rural Khost province, and a drug-resistant tuberculosis programme in Kandahar.
In October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed our trauma centre in Kunduz, killing 42 people. The trauma centre has been closed since then, but the need for lifesaving trauma care remains extremely high.

"There’s still very much an ongoing conflict in Afghanistan"
A country still at war
MSF country representative Djoen Besselink gave us an update on the situation in Afghanistan today.
Speaking at the end of 2018, Djoen describes a country still at war, and explains the impact of the long-term conflict on humanitarian needs and healthcare coverage – even in Kabul, a city flooded by a massive influx of people fleeing the active fighting in other areas of the country.
What are we doing in Afghanistan?


By providing free, high quality maternal and neonatal healthcare in four hospitals in Kabul, Helmand and Khost provinces, we aim to help reduce death and sickness in mothers and their newborns. Training medical staff is an integral and important part of our projects.


We support the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. In Kandahar province, in the south of the country, we run a laboratory, as well as facilities for hosting patients during their treatment.


Our trauma centre in Kunduz was destroyed in US airstrikes killing 42 people, in October 2015. In 2017, we returned to Kunduz to open an outpatient clinic for people with minor trauma-related wounds and injuries, and are evaluating the possibility of re-opening the trauma care centre.

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MSF treats 24 patients following bomb blasts in Lashkargah

A return to humanitarian action

Overcoming war, violence, intimidation and fear in Helmand province, Afghanistan, to bring desperately needed medical care

Bleak living conditions in Afghanistan's Baghrami market

Empty hospital beds in the capital of Helmand, Afghanistan

No guns, no fees in Ahmed Shah Baba hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan

MSF to support hospitals in Lashkar Gah and Kabul Afghanistan

Worrying situation for Afghans in Iran

Parents of murdered aid worker meet with Afghan president

The King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize Speech

MSF leaves Afghanistan after 24 years
