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Activities

Central Medical Stores Overhauled

19 April 2012 | Kabul, Afghanistan

USAID/SPS AFTER With USAID support, the Central Medical Stores was refurbished. The renovated, well-lit warehouse is now air-conditioned to maintain the proper temperature range...

Sharing Leads to Better Health

11 January 2012 | Herat, Afghanistan

Twenty-four men and two women sit around a „U‟ shaped table inside a brightly painted room in the newly USAID/Tech Serve ...

Community Secures Storage Solution

9 January 2012 | Paktika, Afghanistan

With this new storage facility, Sherana Provincial Hospital health providers expect to provide improved services to its patients and, over time, improved health outcomes for the people of Afghanistan.

Saving Maternal and Newborn Lives

8 November 2011 | Khost, Afghanistan

USAID is working with the Ministry of Public Health to combat maternal mortality and support sustained improvements in maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes by enhancing the role of health workers and midwives in rural communities.

Medicine for Misprescription

19 June 2011 | Nangarhar, Afghanistan

SPS staff Dr. Sayed Afandi, Medical Director of the Jalalabad Public Health Hospital, reviews pharmacy records with Pharmacist Ziaulhaq. The 520-bed Jalalabad...

Dispensing Good Medication Practice

19 June 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan

USAID/SPS Pharmacist Hasham provides medication counseling to parents for their sick child. The Ministry of Public Health maintains 53 pharmacy stores, which...

Helping Hospitals Manage Medicines

11 October 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan

Prescribing too many antibiotics, wide discrepancies in treatment practices among doctors, lack of attention to drug interactions, and an unclear picture of what medicines are...

Announcements

Developing Standard Treatment Guidelines to Improve Medical Care

15 May 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Ministy of Public Health (MoPH), in collaboration with USAID’s Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) program, the World Health Organization, and Kabul Medical University, is developing...

Press Releases

Afghan Community Health Workers Celebrate Their Day

18 December 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan

In support of United Nations International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, USAID/Adisa Busuladzic Acting Minister of Public Health Dr....

No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow - U.S. and Afghan Government Officials Celebrate World Health Day

6 April 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan

USAID representatives joined the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), members of Parliament, health officials, and the international community today to...