Key findings of Afghanistan Demographic Health Survey

1. Key Findings of Afghanistan Demographic
Health Survey 2015
Najibullah Safi, MD, MSc. HPM
DG of Preventive Medicines an PHC
MoPH, Afghanistan
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

2. Introduction
• First DHS in Afghanistan
• Data collection: June 2015 – Feb 2016
• Provincial estimates available for 33 out of 34 provinces
• In Zabul province only 7 out of 30 cluster were surveyed
• Households surveyed: 25,974
• Response rate 98%
• Male interviewed: 11,778
• Response rate 91%
• Female interviewed: 30,404
• Response rate 97%

3. Characteristics of respondents
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15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49
Age Groups %
Female Male
• Marital status (male
99.3% female 97.3%
• Residence
• Urban 23.3%
• Rural 76.7%
• Illiteracy rate
• Female 83.5%
• Male 50.6%

4. Maternal health
• Total fertility rate 5.3
• Urban 4.8
• Rural 5.4
• % of women age 15-19 who had a live birth 8%
• Family planning
• CPR (all methods) 22.5%
• Urban 34.9%
• Rural 18.7%
• Unmet need for family planning 24.5%
• Delivery by skilled provider 51% (urban 79%, rural 42%)
• Institutional delivery 48% (urban 76%, rural 40)
• TT 53%

5. Child health
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Infant Mortality Under 5 Mortality
Deaths per 1,000 live births
2001-2005 2006-2010 2011-2015
• BCG 73.7%
• Penta 57.7%
• Measles 60.4%
• % of ARI treated in health facilities
61.6
• % of fever treated in health
facilities 54.2%
• % of diarrhea treated in health
facilities 54.2
• Exclusive breastfeeding under 6
months 42%

6. Other indicators
• HIV prevention
• 9.1% of women and 33.2% of men had Knowledge of HIV prevention
• % of women respondents know where to get HIV test 8.7
• % of women ever tested 0.6
• % of men respondents know where to get HIV test 29.7
• % of men ever tested 5
• Cancer
• %of households with members diagnosed with cancer 2.8%

7. Conclusion
• The result provided a comparable baseline for most of key health
indicators
• Significant improvement in health status
• Detail result including indicators related to maternal mortality will be
released in 4 months time