How many polio cases were confirmed in Afghanistan in 2025?
WHO reported nine confirmed polio cases as of October 2025 in the context used for its 2026 emergency appeal.
What the figure or term means
“As of October” is not necessarily a final full-year total.
Case counts are only one part of surveillance, vaccination, and transmission-risk assessment.
Afghanistan remains central to global polio-eradication work.
Do not remove the cutoff date from the number.
How to use this information responsibly
Current sources show how restrictions, funding cuts, disease, malnutrition, and access barriers overlap, especially for women and children.
National figures should not be used to diagnose an individual, predict one child’s future, or flatten the experiences of all Afghan women and families.
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