Health and Nutrition

PTCRO is playing its role in improving health and nutrition situation in Afghanistan. Cross cutting for health and nutrition sectors are advocacy and awareness about health and nutrition.

Vaccination and immunization, family planning, control and prevention of epidemic and infectious diseases, disease surveillance program, infant, child and mother nutrition, gender mainstreaming in health, and capacity development of stakeholders are the main areas of intervene for PTCRO.

PTCRO Focuses on:

• Marginalized Afghans across all age groups, IDPs, returnees, especially those living in rural areas who are affected by conflict (women, children and men) have easy and efficient access to health services, medicine and nutrition.
• Rural areas and conflict-affected areas of Afghanistan, especially vulnerable groups like women and children have basic but effective and long- lasting health facilities and infrastructures.
• Community, hospitals and clinics in villages and cities, youth, disabled, doctors, and nurses have easy access to all means of health services.
• Launching family planning educational programs for teenagers and young people to have a healthy family.
• Prevention and treatment people of concern particularly women and children through provision of primary and secondary health and nutrition services.
• Providing awareness programs for young people to prevent drug addiction and its unfortunate consequences.