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FAST FACTS
• Escalating cross-border fighting and airstrikes have resulted in reported civilian casualties and injuries, heightened protection risks and precautionary movement from border areas in many provinces, including Kabul, Kandahar, Khost, Kunar, Laghman, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Paktia, Paktika and Parwan.
• Humanitarian partners estimate that 16,370 families have been newly displaced. Tensions remain in Khost, Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktia and Paktika provinces.
OUR FOOTPRINT
• International Medical Corps has been operating in Afghanistan since 1984, providing primary and secondary healthcare, training, health education, emergency response, mental health and psychosocial support, nutrition services, protection services, community empowerment, and water, sanitation and hygiene services.
OUR RESPONSE
• We are monitoring and coordinating with authorities and clusters for a coordinated response to sustain services in Kunar, Nuristan, Paktika and Torkham,
• Our mobile health and protection response team are prepared to be mobilized, subject to access and funding.