Research Reports

The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a tremendous human toll since the first case was reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The disease spread to other countries within weeks, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the situation as a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” on January 30, 2020, followed by the declaration of a pandemic by the organization on March 11, 2020. Since the detection of the first COVID-19 case in February 2020 in Hirat province, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) of the government of the Islamic The Republic of Afghanistan stepped up emergency response interventions in coordination with and through technical support from the WHO Afghanistan office. The analysis presented in this report shows the performance of a sizable sample of public health facilities from 17 provinces of Afghanistan. The Integrity Watch Afghanistan is conducting a series of surveys of the target health facilities using an established mobile app that has been progressively refined since it was first introduced during the Baseline survey. The findings from the periodic surveys will be analyzed and presented through a series of reports to serve as an advocacy tool for further refinement of the government response to the COVID-19 epidemic. More on the report…

Please find below research reports on Afghanistan Readiness Against COVID-19.

Afghanistan Readiness Against COVID-19 on Round 1